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Fancy Dancer

a pastel drawing by Ethel Mortenson Davis

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First Laugh

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

The old poet,
thrown out,
weeps across
the desert
until he climbs
the rim of the canyon,
and there he takes
a page from his book
and writes,

“There is a canyon people
who celebrate the first laugh
of their children.”

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