Almira Balcom's
nekkid ladies
The women at Mt. Herman church, if they mentioned them at all, said surprise lilies. But they looked away when they said it. The Alter Society matrons called them resurrection plants. Even THEM old hens cackled when they answered, because they was thinking about the real name of them tall pink flowers, what they all knew they was really called. And Almira Balcom should know.
You got them from family or neighbors like Almira who had a lot of them near the pond, hardly ever from those rascal peddlers coming by with supplies. Tall Almira.
Their house was set back, the lane curved so you couldn’t see her if you minded your own business and didn’t look. The pond was behind. People say from the time she was a little girl in that house, she run out and dove in every morning, and the winters get cold here.
That’s how she met Mister Balcom. He let himself get caught hiding in the flowers watching her. Soon as they married, he wanted her to stop, cleared places where people might try to watch, cut down the naked ladies.
‘Til SHE was an old lady, every once in a while, people admitted to watching long Almira’s trim pink body break the water.
nekkid ladies
The women at Mt. Herman church, if they mentioned them at all, said surprise lilies. But they looked away when they said it. The Alter Society matrons called them resurrection plants. Even THEM old hens cackled when they answered, because they was thinking about the real name of them tall pink flowers, what they all knew they was really called. And Almira Balcom should know.
You got them from family or neighbors like Almira who had a lot of them near the pond, hardly ever from those rascal peddlers coming by with supplies. Tall Almira.
Their house was set back, the lane curved so you couldn’t see her if you minded your own business and didn’t look. The pond was behind. People say from the time she was a little girl in that house, she run out and dove in every morning, and the winters get cold here.
That’s how she met Mister Balcom. He let himself get caught hiding in the flowers watching her. Soon as they married, he wanted her to stop, cleared places where people might try to watch, cut down the naked ladies.
‘Til SHE was an old lady, every once in a while, people admitted to watching long Almira’s trim pink body break the water.
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