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By Jack Joseph Smith

embrace that only comes with an ending. Beyond the vines two more brick houses sentineled anouther tree shadowed street; and watched us pass across the shade into a long green lawn curved with gardens graceing its body and a willow tree dropping its wishes on a fish pond; We walked to the far deep corner of the yard, and up small stone steps; Me looking into the water and seeing lilly's for beds under falling brown peddles and gold fish who would die every winter. Around us were pine trees; for fall-time pine cones for Christmas, and a white and high Sycomore over still anouther NEIGHBORS home. We walked with a scent of follage PASSING a wooden railed porch and a full cherry tree; with my mother saying, it's so beautiful; around to the front part of our new home again. I thought my mother would want to walk all the way around again. We didn't. We went in, while my father held open the big thick wooden door.

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The walk reaches a fish pond under willow and sycamore shade, then closes with the family turning back toward the house through a garden so beautiful the child wants to circle it again.

The far corner of the yard becomes a place of lilies, dead-winter goldfish, pine cones, layered trees, and passing foliage. The desire to keep walking around the home again gives the scene a child's sense of abundance, as if the property could keep generating new edges.

Claude

The yard's 'song' joins 'in an embrace that only comes with an ending', and the tour reaches its far corner: a 'willow tree dropping its wishes on a fish pond', lilies bedded under 'falling brown peddles', and 'gold fish who would die every winter'. The child catalogs pine cones 'for Christmas', a high Sycomore over a neighbor's home, and a full cherry tree while his mother repeats 'it's so beautiful', and he half-expects to circle the property again before they go in through 'the big thick wooden door'. The reading stays provisional because the foliage-and-porch line on this mixed-quality page carries unresolved handwritten revision and strikeout.