“Diary”
as a child I saw my future audience clearly in sunday school I was taught to write for all my future children and all their future children that they may know my girlmind I worked hard to sound good :: as a teenager I called it my journal I stopped saying dear in college I said notebook look how I hammered these words into work when we moved across the country the first time I packed gently so the heavy notebooks wouldn’t crush the small diaries :: I threw away half of the notebooks diaries and journals a few years […]
“Katherina Magdelena”
Katherina Magdelena, a pioneer who married her stepfather at fifteen & died from childbirth at seventeen I keep trying to write my way to you what you were you were seventeen you always will be the book of your life ended in birth delivering the son of your step father your husband & step father is my great great grandfather but I am not your daughter you were the second or third wife depending on who does the counting & you never knew the fourth or fifth wife who dominates the documents that mention the wives she had the most […]
