balconies gutted by fungus,
and nailed to the outside
door, almost erased by rain,
the saddest cardboard sign in
the world: Funeral Wreaths
for Sale. From that moment
until the icy morning when
Fernanda left her house under
the care of the Mother
Superior there was barely
enough time for the nuns to
sew her trousseau and in six
trunks put the candelabra, the
silver service, and the gold
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