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She also was one of the first Americans to use the Haiku poem style. This is an example of the poem:
My mother taught me purple Although she never wore lieutenant Wash-gray was her circle, The tenement her orbit.
My mother taught me golden And held me up to see it, Above the broken molding, Beyond the filthy street.
My mother reached for beauty And for its lack she died, Who knew so much of duty She could not teach me pride. She was born in Hamburg, New York and graduated from William Smith College.