a good woman feeling bad

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@thisispaper has a really nice write up today about a project of mine from a while back. 

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early morning asheville

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and then the earth pushed back

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last october instagrams, let’s follow each other:

https://instagram.com/marciehancock/

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The Last of the Granny Witches

We are a peculiar breed. Our roots grow deeper than the cedars, and yet we don't know precisely where or who it is that we grew from. We are a mystery as old as these hills themselves, and it doesn...

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my mother would pull me out of bed when i was little to do a rain dance in my nightgown, so that our corn would be extra sweet, and my granny would bury fatback in the yard under a downspout to get rid of a wart, which from what i am told, worked without fail. so glad to see this a while back, in light of recent works in progress. cheers to mountain mamas.

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8-15-15

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I didn’t make photographs this summer.

The Night I Stood Under Your Porchlight

June 23, 2014, Lexington, KY

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Still mostly living out of my car, and wishing I hadn’t used the word ‘wayward.’

June 23, 2015

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deer bed/borrowed resting place

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I am a hillbilly, a woman, and a poet, and I understood early on that nobody was going to listen to anything I had to say anyway because of this. So I started saying what I wanted to.

-Irene McKinney, Poet Laureate of West Virginia

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