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Date Posted: 21:42:25 05/25/04 Tue
Author: siempre
Subject: daughter

Mother

The echo
Of my mother's buzzing vacuum motor
Reverberates down through the air
From the balcony down to my ears
On the sanctuary floor below.
Remember, dust everything.

I push through the shadows of the apex
Where spirits congregate.
I feel them permeate my bones, laughing into my eyes, into
The illuminated open air of the sanctuary.
Moonlight streams in through
Endless stained panes of glass falling
Down on me from all sides. And

I clutch my dust rag which,
Had it been wet,
Would have been bone-dry by now.
Smooth it over the shoulders of pews.
Methodically pass the cloth over them.
Again and again.
The dust always manages to collect again.

--Daphne E. Stanford

Daphne grew up at Elmo, helping her mother, Rosa, who was the church custodian for over five years.
Daphne later graduated from Carpinteria High School with honors, in 1996.
She went on to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she majored in English Literature, and graduated in 2000. She then attended Portland State University for a year before going on to the University of Iowa. She received her Master's Degree in Secondary Education/English, with minors in English Literature and Writing, graduating May 14, 2004.
Her proud parents, David and Rosa were in attendance.
Daphne was rated best out of 26 graduates in her section by her professors.

She is currently seeking a teaching position for the Fall.
Daphne and Ryan Blacketter will be married later this Summer in Iowa City.

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