Detroit: Victory Garden, 1945

_______________________. The Time of Man. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts. "Female Sanctity: Public and Private Roles, ca. 500-1100." Women and Power in the Middle Ages. 102-125. Wemple, Suzanne Fonay. "Women from the Fifth to the Tenth Century." A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2. 169-201. Detroit: Victory Garden, 1945 My mother bends in the row, lifts hoe to chop another weed, remembers when her man ahead, bent to bucket's heft, was the boy who swore no more sweat off his brow to plow down rows, no more nettles to sting like bees needling barefoot arch, no more breaking his back for a measly mess of greens, beans by the bushel to break, string until fingers go numb, no. Just look at us now, loving what once we hated, far off from mountains on this flat patch of dirt they let us tend, my mother muses. Father picks greens, basket brimful, his feast already a taste he can savor, pot liquor stewed long, seasoned right, smelling of home. My father bends in the row, beans blooming, promise of more. —Jeff Daniel Marion 33 ...