Lines 90-93:  Her room, etc.

 

In the draft, instead of the final text:

 

……………………….her room

We’ve kept intact.  Her trivia for us

Retrace her style:  the leaf sarcophagus

(A Luna’s dead and shriveled-up cocoon)

 

The reference to what my dictionary defines as “a large, tailed, pale green moth, the caterpillar of which feeds on the hickory.”  I suspect Shade altered this passage because his moth’s name clashed with “Moon” in the next line.

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