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Visions found
in "From Kentucky Roots"
They say Great-grandma Fannie
had hair so red
that if you broke a strand
she would bleed to death.
But a black and white photo
shows mostly shades of gray.
They say she helped
fight a fire--
a bucket brigade--
to save a neighbor's home
and her seven months pregnant
with her fourteenth child.
They say she was missed
after the fire died down;
they searched for her
and finally found her
face down in the creek
they'd carried water from
a tin bucket lying by her side
while the stream flowed
over and around her
and fanned out her long, red hair.
In the photo, her eyes,
deep, dark pools, stare
at something just beyond
my left shoulder.
I look around
expectantly
but nothing's there.
What did she see?
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