from a scratchy record
of Libba singing
freight train freight train
old woman
singing little girl’s song
and then saw her
print skirt
buttoned up blouse
sitting with
upside-
down guitar
picking the tune so full of longing and imagined escape
weathered face shining with kind eyes
I wonder if she was buried on
old Chestnut street to hear
old Number 9
and I wonder where that cassette is
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