My Father’s Death

MARY LANDRUM MILES, 1846

 

My father,

the Reverend John Landrum,

lived eighty-one years;

may his soul

rest in peace.

My husband, Lewis, says

Dave must now be ours.

He has been on

a permanent loan to us

for so many years.

But my father’s will

says nothing in particular

about Dave,

and a loan

is not forever.