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Wraiths

Wraiths Marion Hodge Appalachian Heritage, Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 1980, p. 37 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1980.0010 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441592/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:16 GMT from JHU Libraries WRAITHS Where he strode birds sang though worm-riven, and wraiths of mist rose about him, condensed on the hairs of his ears and they sang there, and glistened roundly— they sang and rang in the tormented, suffering woods and in beads of the rainbow in shifting, dancing, lacy light through wind-rummaged walnuts and sycamores and hickories, mottling earth, mottling grass, mottling copperhead, rabbit, gnat, june bug, lightning bug, slug, toadstool pale as an old mother's dead favored son's face, yellow, erupting almost, pushing inexorably, briefly, through mossy loam into night, almost nothing, almost nothing to crush, to sweep away, mottling path, street, sidewalk, boots, shoulders, hands, dark curly hair where the wraiths condensed as well, mottling southern mountain summer weeds, tall Goldenrod and Queen Anne's Lace with its carrot embedded in the cool, dark, sharp-grassed soil over which lay heavily the copper-colored serpent, the dragon breathing a thin black flame into the sunlight— and through the beads of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Wraiths

Hodge, Marion.
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Marion Hodge Appalachian Heritage, Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 1980, p. 37 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1980.0010 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441592/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:16 GMT from JHU Libraries WRAITHS Where he strode birds sang though worm-riven, and wraiths of mist rose about him, condensed on the hairs of his ears and they sang there, and glistened roundly— they sang and rang in the tormented, suffering woods and in beads of the rainbow in shifting, dancing, lacy light through wind-rummaged walnuts and sycamores and hickories, mottling earth, mottling grass, mottling copperhead, rabbit, gnat, june bug, lightning bug, slug, toadstool pale as an old mother's dead favored son's face, yellow, erupting almost, pushing inexorably, briefly, through mossy loam into night, almost nothing, almost nothing to crush, to sweep away, mottling path, street, sidewalk, boots, shoulders, hands, dark curly hair where the wraiths condensed as well, mottling southern mountain summer weeds, tall Goldenrod and Queen Anne's Lace with its carrot embedded in the cool, dark, sharp-grassed soil over which lay heavily the copper-colored serpent, the dragon breathing a thin black flame into the sunlight— and through the beads of

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