Mouths Open to Name Her by Katie Bickham

Author:Katie Bickham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

the winter night he saw the huddled mother

nursing her baby against the bakery’s front steps

long after the crowds had gone. His own mother’s

ghost urged him out in the frozen wind

to offer her the last brown roll of bread.

When he came to her, he saw that she had died,

though still, as the snow fell, her child nursed desperately,

determined that this last sweet thing would last the night.

Edenton, North Carolina, 1968

I was raped twice, once by the perpetrator and

once by the state of North Carolina.

—ELAINE RIDDICK, 2012

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