& these are my tomatoes planted 24 varieties this year been collecting seeds, trading for almost a decade here I feel like a patriarch fingers splayed, laying hands blessing the rows like a wife, these plants respond well to attention, a gentle sweep of the …
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Emily Dow Partridge
Keep walking. Keep walking, don’t think about it. Don’t think about this morning, being deep in the washing when Mrs. Durfee stopped by, telling me to meet him tonight at the Kimballs’. Couldn’t change my dress, people would wonder, so here I am stinking of sweat and lye walking as fast as I can, walking …
Sylvia Porter Sessions Lyon
Men must retire to the woods to receive visions of God. Women give birth & see His face, feel Him push through. The details of all nine births live in me, cross-stitched to my lungs & I can recall each one as if they had happened this dawn. But my dear Josephine, my fourth birth, …