ESTHER
Nine. ESTHER’S hair falls in soft curls about her high-cheek-boned chalk-white face. Esther’s hair would…
CARMA
Wind is in the cane. Come along. Cane leaves swaying, rusty with talk, Scratching choruses…
CALLING JESUS
HER soul is like a little thrust-tailed dog that follows her, whimpering. She is large…
BOX SEAT
1 HOUSES are shy girls whose eyes shine reticently upon the dusk body of the…
BONA AND PAUL
1 ON the school gymnasium floor, young men and women are drilling. They are going…
BLOOD-BURNING MOON
UP from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid…
BECKY
Becky was the white woman who had two Negro sons. She’s dead; they’ve gone away.…
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