'Their no-longer houses'

"Toss in some wavy lines, an equal sign, and a squiggle,

then a lilac log, boulders with faces, a few phrases

like rock walls, twin marks from wagon wheels on granite.

The tell-tale lilacs give away the cellar hole:

magnetic lilacs, like nineteenth-century girls

in pinafores and blossom sprays, stationed

beside their no-longer houses. They look about to sing.''

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-- From "Deconstructing New England, by Alexandria Peary