Ma tante Pauline

(favoured aunt of Cayen, favourite mother of joe_cool and regular blip viewer)

At eighty-six and a half, she has taught virtually the entire village.
Madame Pauline remembers them all.

She popped by this morning: the twenty-two year old son of an old pupil is to be buried... suicide.

Memories flow across the surface of eyes that have seen much:
with a lucidity that can be daunting.