Tag: woman

• July 14, 2017

  A Woman in Town Tells Me

  my grandfather was a native; there’s no paperwork to prove it, but old pictures seem to say more than new words. Told me she lived on the same hillside as him when they were young, that once they were working around the same garden— said she never knew he was there, not until she backed…
• March 23, 2015

  Veatrice

  I could drink the thunder in some evenings,  let the roaring of it all put a rumble in my chest— holler out, and be heard. Yet I lack the grace that should be winding through my veins by way of my great-grandmother: a woman who was not once, but twice, slapped down by strikes of…