Romey's Order by Atsuro Riley

Author:Atsuro Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Mama talks in this one.

Here’s us, backing down our driveway’s maze of red-dirt dog-legs, her at the wheel (with a fresh-forged license), me turned around navigating, the yard black-dark but flushed now (and now) and now with brake-lights, her Kool-tip flaring on every hard in-breath, river-reek and oil-scorch and marsh-gas mingling, our under-chassis (and rear axle, eyeteeth) chuttering due to roots and rain-ruts, our rust-crusting Rambler swerving and fishtailing and near-missing trees.

At the mailbox, gears knock, gnaw, grind, find Forward eventually: we’re missile-heading straight (more or less) for the LowCountry fairgrounds; here’s us, late, loud, breaknecking her blue-ribbon hoard to the Fair.

Everything is home-made.

Not just our back-seat freight of gem-flame jelly-jars (slip-skin grape, beet, black- and blueberry, brunt-apple, seed-splacked fig) and payload of pressure-torqued pickle-jars (wrick-kinked banana-peppers, lethal hot-hat peppers, (green) tear-tomatoes, hairy okra, baby-dills in brine), but also the crazy-quilt safe-swaddling them, the gummed saliva-labels neat-naming them, my mama’s name —hieroglyphical, grease-penciled, ‘kay’ (kazue) hutto— branding lids.

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