““Grass Fires" No ease for the boy at his keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail. In the grandiloquent lettering on Mother's coffin Lowell had been misspelled LOVEL The corpse was wrapped like panetone in Italian tinfoil Father's death was abrupt and unprotesting. His vision was still twenty-twenty. After a morning of anxious, repetitive smiling, his last words to Mother were: "I feel awful." He smiled his oval Lowell smile.... It has taken me the time since you died to discover you are as human as I am... If I am.””
