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(continued from page 9) wick? They do so because it’s fun, an extension of the rough-and-tumble play of childhood. The girls have created a little show, a skit. But Georgie and Fenwick don’t play. The play is bullying and no one wants to play with a bully. One of the girls says to Georgie “do you want to take me home tonight?” “Everyone laughs/ but Georgie and Fenwick…” “…They look/ like rabbits frozen/ with the fear of a gun.” The game that Nowland described here and fully captures is the kind that brings forth dark laughter. It’s laughter that comes at the expense of others and because of the frailties and misfortunes of others. In the Hainesville Cemetery deals with emotion and intentional behavior. Mary Talbot was born in 1887. Her husband John was born in 1885. John died in 1955. John Talbot’s gravestone has his dates. Mary’s has but the one. Mary puts “…a jam jar of water and tu-
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lips/ on her own grave.” Why? What’s the explanation for his behavior? “The Talbots,” Nowland says “are people/ who make the beds before breakfast…” They also “…set the breakfast table/ before they go to bed.” Mary could have had a hole dug and waiting for her. But that would have been carrying intent too far. Flowers were the thought, a traditional expression of emotion. The works cited above say something about the nature of Maine, small town Maine. In a sense they are meditations, but perhaps that’s what all poetry is. Their images say something of small town life, fortunes and misfortunes, that speak to something larger. We should all relate to them. That’s what makes small town Maine unique, whether that small town be a Haynesville or some other.
DID YOU KNOW? In the Hollywood movie Seven Days in May there is a line saying “The President’s vacationing at Drew’s Lake in Maine.”
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