Tuesday, July 03, 2007

News at Eleven: In "Obedience of a Corpse", a woman dies

in labour, leaving her child with nothing in the house "but a broken sack of potatoes growing eyes". The midwife worries about the freshness of the mother's milk and wraps the baby in a white shirt: "it's beautiful she thinks--/snow nobody has walked on."

from The Guardian: Arkansas blues

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