bronzeville mother

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  1. brown-black
    of black tinged with brown
    To show that snappy-eyed mother,
    That sassy, Northern, brown-black--


    Nothing could stop Mississippi.
  2. unhorse
    alight from (a horse)
    It occurred to her that there may have been something
    Ridiculous to the picture of the Fine Prince
    Rushing (rich with the breadth and height and
    Mature solidness whose lack, in the Dark Villain, was impressing her,
    Confronting her more and more as this first day after the trial
    And acquittal (wore on) rushing
    With his heavy companion to hack down (unhorsed)
    That little foe.
  3. decapitate
    cut the head off of
    But his mouth would not go away and neither would the
    Decapitated exclamation points in that Other Woman's eyes.
  4. seep
    pass gradually or leak or as if through small openings
    She tried, but could not resist the idea
    That a red ooze was seeping, spreading darkly, thickly, slowly,
    Over her white shoulders, her own shoulders,
    And over all of Earth and Mars.
  5. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
    The last quatrain.
  6. tantrum
    a display of bad temper
    Perhaps the boy had never guessed
    That the trouble with grown-ups was that under the magnificent shell of adulthood, just under,
    Waited the baby full of tantrums.
  7. loiter
    linger, remain, or wait around for no apparent reason
    A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi.
  8. villain
    someone who does evil deliberately
    Pursued
    By the Dark Villain.
  9. quince
    small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit
    She set out a jar
    Of her new quince preserve.
  10. molasses
    thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
    Whereupon the younger baby
    Picked up the molasses pitcher and threw
    The molasses in his brother's face.
  11. acquittal
    a judgment of not guilty
    It occurred to her that there may have been something
    Ridiculous to the picture of the Fine Prince
    Rushing (rich with the breadth and height and
    Mature solidness whose lack, in the Dark Villain, was impressing her,
    Confronting her more and more as this first day after the trial
    And acquittal (wore on) rushing
    With his heavy companion to hack down (unhorsed)
    That little foe.
  12. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
    Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stirring bravado, The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
    The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?
  13. barbarism
    a brutal barbarous savage act
    With their pepper-words, "bestiality," and "barbarism," and
    "Shocking."
  14. confront
    oppose, as in hostility or a competition
    It occurred to her that there may have been something
    Ridiculous to the picture of the Fine Prince
    Rushing (rich with the breadth and height and
    Mature solidness whose lack, in the Dark Villain, was impressing her,
    Confronting her more and more as this first day after the trial
    And acquittal (wore on) rushing
    With his heavy companion to hack down (unhorsed)
    That little foe.
  15. rushing
    the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
    It occurred to her that there may have been something
    Ridiculous to the picture of the Fine Prince
    Rushing (rich with the breadth and height and
    Mature solidness whose lack, in the Dark Villain, was impressing her,
    Confronting her more and more as this first day after the trial
    And acquittal (wore on) rushing
    With his heavy companion to hack down (unhorsed)
    That little foe.
Created on 四月 27, 2011

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