in the throat of crownsville, maryland
beneath the filament of pine and tobacco
reedy blue asters outline the old prison cottage
for colored women
held in parch and punishment
forensics is memory
a sash of light from the monocacy river arcs BELOVED
while maddish seasons dismember
her station hulled beneath the muck turned livid on the edges
of things like vindictive
weeds or nervous trees a caste even unto death
as though bone may copulate with bone
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