Showing posts with label Jessica Lamb Shapiro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jessica Lamb Shapiro. Show all posts

October 23, 2008

Mom

The whole world was afraid of mother:
the trees shivered in the wind,
the bushes hunched together, trying to hide,
the grass lay flat and silent on the ground.
Even the air shrieked.
-- Jessica Lamb Shapiro, "The Animal Kingdom"
(McSweeney's 14)