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76 Hash Marks Drayton Hall Plantation (for South Carolina and Its Corridor of Shame) The blue bonnet children had a wall. The swimming swamp dogs too. Their hash marks of height play peek with the same canary sun. Plantation measurements of progress: See this is them on two legs, this higher one here—on four. On this tour, every visitor, but one, gets mistyeyed concerning the preservation of the pencil lines. Where is the wall that brims the height & progress of the Nigras? Sheetrock record of crosscut backs, split hymens, slit bellies, sold-away sons. No recordings from the precise recorders of these, to honey other calculations that grandfather time. What is here for me in the Big House is suspended, afloat in bee amber. Each long drawn, lost longing, root cellared, pickled, airtight, dunked in blue glass jars, wax-dripped tops, shout & twist. ...

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