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One Dark BodyCan a motherless girl and fatherless boy find healing? Raisin 1963 This a funny place. Maybe cause of the mountain standing up behind our town watching like a big old eye. Or maybe it's that lake stretching way out, reaching black to black, pushing its way cross the earth like it's in a hurry to run away from here. Or maybe it's that twisted-trunk, yellow-leaf tree next to Blue-the-wanga-man's house, with the leaves that shine like gold lamps through the trees, day or night. But some folks say no, it's not that mountain sitting back watching over us, and it's not that black lake reaching, and it's not that old white- trunked, yellow-tipped tree next to Blue's that Reverend Daniles swears covers a hole leading from this world to the next. The thing that makes Pearl a funny kind of place is all that whispering we hear coming up from the ground. |
