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"You don't sleep! You don't go outside! The Auzenne girls ride every day and make bouquets for the parlor. They have the flush of health. You are always reading and making yourself nervous."
Céphaline said evenly, "You are nervous. I am reading."
These were Grandmère Bordelon's husband's books, from France. I touched the spines.
— Dec 30, 2022 03:52PM
Céphaline said evenly, "You are nervous. I am reading."
These were Grandmère Bordelon's husband's books, from France. I touched the spines.
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I couldn't run. Every tree was bare, every bayou low and dank. Every morning for weeks, the sun came through the shutter cracks like silvery ice. I couldn't measure the distance--two days on the river north from Azure to New Orleans, two days from there to Lafitte's place, and four days north on the Atchafalaya and bayous to Rosière.
How many days by foot?
— Jan 01, 2023 07:15PM
How many days by foot?
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I had slept away from her only once. I curled on my side and saw everything in the cleaning. My mother's skirt, near my face when I was small, a bleach spot like a cloud in a black sky. Shiny pink scar on her forearm from a burn. Cast-iron pots, with craters like healed skin. Clothespins lined up to dance in the sand. Washboard silver but veins of rust like washboard blood.
— Dec 30, 2022 03:37PM
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In late summer, I collected the moss with the same long poles we used to knock down the pecans in fall. I waved the pole around in the gray tangles and pulled them down from the oaks on the land beside the house, not far from the clearing where we washed and sewed.
— Dec 30, 2022 12:10PM
