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An Attic Box by Rachel Lovelace
from Legacy 2008
An Attic Box
by Rachel Lovelace
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A scruffy old Steiff teddy bear-
matted fur and missing an ear.
A well-loved porcelain doll-
missing a thumb.
A wooden polar bear toy from a Noah's Ark-
a gift from a long ago Christmas.
A spirited little bay mare—carved
by an old man who once took care ofcarriage horses.
A scuffed copy of Hamlet.
A crumbling rose— carefully laid
in a small box, a deep green ribbon about its stem.
A leather bound diary from 1915-
inside a sepia photograph of a smiling
young woman and her dead fiance before he went to war.
