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Film Memory It is the most exquisite day ever dreamed. The trees hang and because of a child their tops lap as mountains to the sky though they are trunk to trunk intwined there as a bounty of Alleghany Pennsylvania hills. Before Kennedy forest moves the slight wheat. The kernels are as children too, for they are forever moving toward a nowhere. The huge meadow we see in the deep is not mellow, though the glow is the same as if it were. Rather this meadow of a few cows and apples senses the classics. We will not understand why until we visit with sight the huge stone homes walling this great child's field to the East. We see a truck moving down a brick street old as cobblestoney street. The driver slams it still. We raise our eyes now for the smoke across the sky. It drifts full as if the wind was made. We know the wind is an athiest, but all that is a curtain must open to some thing. He stammers, this truck driving man grits, below a Metzie's fild he can not see red now with flame. But it is not the silk seed of grain for which he cares. And not even the real estate he comprehends through these momentary clouds of pain (however important.) It is rather what he sees in his own home window that brings his stammer down from vigor to stress; He is obviously a working man moved to a wealthy community, and his young daughter is laughing higher than him and the fire with, certainly not, about or for, She is running away with joy in her streight head and he knows she is over the crest of excape with the boy who does the burning. I didn't have to much time so I married her at ten At the same place where her father put a bullit through my head