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Doing Business

Doing Business Carolyn Page Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 1990, p. 61 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1990.0152 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/445759/summary Access provided at 20 Feb 2020 02:26 GMT from JHU Libraries Stitches "Keep busy. Do somethin' with your hands," Grandmother'd say, rewarding my neat stitches with a cup of cocoa, later a thimble of dented silver. I sewed my way through split dreams, broken vows, and youngsters' vagaries. Later I chopped calico into neat squares, piecing together with bitter stitches what remained. But somewhere out of a dream my gandmother's voice echoed Doing Business "Loosen up, child. You got a ways to go Willy cleans her spectacles, yet." the better to watch the dusty worm -Carolyn Page wind up the hollow, writhe as it follows Barnett Creek, past sagging barns and cabins collared in blazing staghorn sumac and sly chokecherries. Willy lifts the corner of her apron as the silver Mercedes passes the plot of tipsy markers and ribbons that guard the rotting bones from every war that swallowed up Pine Mountain's sonless men. Willy swats flies, her thimble catching light, as the big car glides into her dooryard, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Doing Business

Page, Carolyn
Appalachian Review , Volume 18 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Carolyn Page Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 1990, p. 61 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1990.0152 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/445759/summary Access provided at 20 Feb 2020 02:26 GMT from JHU Libraries Stitches "Keep busy. Do somethin' with your hands," Grandmother'd say, rewarding my neat stitches with a cup of cocoa, later a thimble of dented silver. I sewed my way through split dreams, broken vows, and youngsters' vagaries. Later I chopped calico into neat squares, piecing together with bitter stitches what remained. But somewhere out of a dream my gandmother's voice echoed Doing Business "Loosen up, child. You got a ways to go Willy cleans her spectacles, yet." the better to watch the dusty worm -Carolyn Page wind up the hollow, writhe as it follows Barnett Creek, past sagging barns and cabins collared in blazing staghorn sumac and sly chokecherries. Willy lifts the corner of her apron as the silver Mercedes passes the plot of tipsy markers and ribbons that guard the rotting bones from every war that swallowed up Pine Mountain's sonless men. Willy swats flies, her thimble catching light, as the big car glides into her dooryard,

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