potters' field

41 Cynthia Parker-Ohene potters’ field in the throat of crownsville, maryland beneath the filament of pine and tobacco reedy blue asters outline the old prison cottage for colored women held in parch and punishment forensics is memory a sash of light from the monocacy river arcs BELOVED while maddish seasons dismember her station hulled beneath the muck turned livid on the edges of things like vindictive weeds or nervous trees a caste even unto death as though bone may copulate with bone ...