Graves
Anna Bicker
1857 – 1936
A scroll for a woman who watched eight decades go by.
Anna Bicker's stone is rolled like a scroll, the way the Victorians drew the book of life when it was finished being written. Seventy-nine years — she arrived before the Civil War and left between the World Wars, which means she saw the whole loud transformation of this country from the ground she is lying in now.
The violets and dandelions keep her company, and the grass is slowly pulling the scroll back down to the earth. That is not neglect. That is the ground reading her back.