rural Kentucky, 1945 a fishing shack as one-room house one narrow bed, one white
oak basket two Bernadines in the sounds of the river dee dee dee chickadee mallards,
whooping cranes beaver scratch and squeal in the shack, barely the sound of
breath mother and infant the bed, the basket since the revelation
staggered sundered the mother prostrate on the rickety how long how long while
the baby baby melding into basket tender skull flattening small legs gone stiff how
long how long find them, Great Uncle Paul, find them lift my mother over your
head teach her how to kick