Archive for July 2nd, 2009
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
“The Tulip Tree” by Ted Gilley
Ted Gilley
THE TULIP TREE
If you were lucky enough to live in Henry County, Virginia,
in 1962, when the knitting mills’ softball teams lifted red dust
as fine as smoke into the lights of Brown Street field
on Friday nights;
where the wives of veterans sewed a thousand miles of waistbands
into a million pairs of [...]
