SCRAPING THE BLACKENED BOTTOM
Moira Linehan
In heaven, it was thought (by the Puritans), only male bodies would be resurrected. - Eve LaPlante, SALEM WITCH JUDGE Stomping upstairs downstairs all day yesterday thinking Puritans men and women believed banging pots I put away pounding out two miles uphill on the treadmill only male bodies pounding chicken breasts lopping off the ends of green beans only male would be resurrected in heaven women allowed it was true lugging the glass storm door up from the basement shaking out towels and sheets from the washer the dryer this body mine were I alive then but isn‘t that what Anne Bradstreet meant what she knew If ever two were one, then surely we Dan you and I only yesterday scraping the blackened bottom of one more pot without you each day a long glass year it all lifts toward you oh won‘t I
That when we live no more we may live ever.
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