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The Gray-haired Woman she treats artichoke and onion with reverence peels each mango slowly dabs on rose perfume lets the kitchen phone ring so she can remember how her mother loved violets on the trail she recognizes native plants artemisia, salvia, ceanothus takes time to count how many train cars pass she works a canvas with a red and yellow sunset a black sky of early stars a full moon counts the stars calls them by name paints them one by one late into the night