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enjoy this Brandon S. Roy writing in the Down in the Dirt free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Ghost (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2011 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Ghost

The Widow on the Corner

Brandon S. Roy

I heard she was from Brazil.
She prayed loudly in Portuguese and cooked fejioada daily.
Beans and pork stained the air.
Her husband died young.
He passed with no warning leaving only a daughter as a testament to his wife.
The girl resembled him.

Small frame, smaller nose, a beautiful sad girl.
As a teenager, something terrible lived in this girl.
She threw herself off the bridge leading out of the neighborhood.
She left a single note saying, I’m finally out.
The widow knelt before a statue of St. Cyprian praying silently.
We could hear her mumble verses, with pity on those who are housed there, to sustain them in disappointment, and salvation to those engaged.
She lives alone.
She prays and watches the hands on the clock.
She hasn’t been here before and now here she stands, alone.

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