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Duty.(Poem)

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| July 01, 2008 | Lance, Robyn | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
DUTY 
 
   She made slow progress 
   down the darkened hall, 
 
   a cut rose past its prime, 
   head heavy, bloom faded. 
 
   Lift ... push ... shuffle ... 
   the frame guided 
 
   by hands half hidden 
   in fingerless gloves. 
 
   In the dutiful times of war 
   a suitor was repelled 
 
   lest he deflect her from 
   the patriarch. 
 
   Struggling to comply 
   with the unwritten plot 
 
   she left a job of some repute 
   to tend an aging ...

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