“Maud”-Aunt of John Shade, she raised him after his parents died. She was “A poet and a painter with taste/For realistic objects interlaced/ With grotesque growths and images of doom” (page 36). Her room was left intact after she died, including “The verse book open at the Index (Moon, /Moonrise, Moor, Moral)…./The human skull…” (page 36).
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