<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">Guide</span><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;"><br class=""></span><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">His gaunt bent walking-stick frame</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">draped with hunter’s-plaid shirt</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">and scout’s awareness,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">he holds her flaccid hand with his right,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">her long-handled purse dangling from his left,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">as he leads her </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">like a father his slow but precious child</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">out of the car,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">onto her unsteady feet,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">up the curb,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">along the walk to the blood lab.</span></div><div id="viewer-e61k" class="_208Ie blog-post-text-color blog-post-text-font ljrnk _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr XzvDs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;"><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">As if to make up for her vacant face</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">her hesitant body</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">from which identity has long since escaped,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">he says hello to the passing stranger</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">cordially but undeterred from his task:</span></div><div id="viewer-5du6c" class="_208Ie blog-post-text-color blog-post-text-font ljrnk _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr XzvDs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;"><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">preserving her emptied shell</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">on the altar of long-ago vows,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">breathing hope onto the cool gray embers</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">of ancient fires,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">remembering what she has forgot,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;" class=""><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;">teaching us what love is.</span></div><div id="viewer-brnqu" class="_208Ie blog-post-text-color blog-post-text-font ljrnk _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr XzvDs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;"><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" class=""></span></div><p id="viewer-dqm9j" class="_208Ie blog-post-text-color blog-post-text-font ljrnk _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr XzvDs" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; direction: ltr !important;"><span class="vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; direction: ltr;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Vilma Ginzberg</span></p></div></body></html>