I am uploading the poems with no exactitude as to when or why each was written. We know that Evelyn experienced a heart attack sometime near the times of her sister’s and mother’s deaths. To be told she must give up her dancing career would have been another death to her.
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No more to dance!
As well forbid the butterfly
His path of flowers,
Or sever twilight from the day.
This heart is more than flesh,
A potpourri of muscles and blood!
My lover is the wind,
With rain upon his hair,
And I must ride with him.
Evelyn Coffey
Evelyn seemed meek, in her black clothes, her shy eyes downcast in the presence of strangers. The exclamation point at the end of the fist line and the insistent "must" in the closing line express her determination to inherit the earth.
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