What Is Found There by Sue B. Walker
narrated by Sue B. Walker
(A cento)
What Is Found There by Sue Walker Illustration by Sue Babcock
One night after the family had gone to bed under the girders of a causeway bridge to drown themselves in the stark eyes of the moon, and there in the desperation of hard economic times, the little girl said “Is that it then? Are we beside ourselves?” And you sit and think about the puzzle of time passing, of mortality, of human choice—like you want me to answer Jesus of Nazareth, Genghis Khan, and Eva Braun and say Motherhood integrates bio-procreational and social processes.
References:
William Carlos Williams, Selah Saterstrom, The Pink Institution, Jeffrey Goodman, “Under the Bridge,” Aileen Kilgore Henderson, “The Dreamers And The Realist,” William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Pat Conroy, The Pat Conroy Cookbook, Johnny Summerfield, Table Five, Kathleen M. Bolen, “Prehistoric Construction of Mothering”
Sue B. Walker is the Stokes Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama and the Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2003-1012. She is the publisher of Negative Capability Press and the journal’s editor.
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