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A tree made out of polka dotted construction paper pasted onto a lighter brown piece of construction paper. A half circle of yellow, like a sun, is behind the tree. The tree is surrounded by cut-out parts of a poem by Emily Dickinson. The strips of poem at the bottom are colored in brown and placed next to a gravestone labelled "MDCCLXXXVI."

By Maura Sheehy Siano ’94

Not pursued by learned angels
In scholastic skies!

At that grand “Right hand”!

Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

When it is said,

LXXXIX
A WORD is dead

IF the foolish call them “flowers”,
Need the wiser tell?
If the savants “classify” them,
It is just as well!