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Amid a shallow attic lit
I picked it up
From off of dusty table top, looked
With great intensity
Jaw dropped and staring

Unearthing a discovered curiosity 
In an eighteen twenty two of past
Captured she was
In this black of white
Faded ancient photograph

On further inspection, my vitals lapsed
To a background uncanny sight as this
Of once abandoned but, never quite forgotten
Woman who's now been unveiled
Almost elegant in a then modern day Victorian dress 

Her parasol, but a bigger crown
Than the hat atop mounds of braided tress
Set the air on hopes evidence to her notoriety
Beneath those shades and shadows was my auntie Bess
 

Greatest of the greats, long ago lost
Was my mother's mother's sister a relative that now seemed less distant
With old wives tales told more and more
Of a woman ahead of her time 
Always remembered with a pair of Levi pants she wore

The years had kept her legend
But, now in this here likely present
She again, will take her place
With a pride from out of frame and glass
A woman wild in her ways

Her found smile as treasure upon display 
Auntie Bess fills an once empty space 
In the heart familiar 
And upon the family fireplace

Bound up in a gown on mantle's home
Next to all her kin of past
Hiding in a crowded family portrait
Seen wearing a Victorian dress at last

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