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724 Betty Layman Receveur “Kentucky Woman” Betty Layman Receveur was first and last a poet, whether she called a piece of her writing poetry or a historical novel. She was a proud seventh-generation Kentuckian and showed her pride in poetry and prose, including this poem about an ancestor looking out from a tintype portrait. h You look out across genetic memory tin preserved rimmed and honored atop polished cherry. da Vinci would have painted your wide-planed face strong as hickory eyes deepset that whisper of the others gone before. Unknown hand browned ink forever at your back lest you forget as if you could the echo of my blood and bone three times removed child of child of child. You speak to me of Etta, daughter of The author’s name 725 Anna, daughter of Mariah, of women who could match the land and give each day its due of blood-rich womb and roughened hands and finally of time the cruelest thing of all. Betty Layman Receveur 725 ...

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