Flowers burst from the abandoned toilet bowls littering the skirts of deep trees with good posture (the kind many other places have forgotten once stood) In a careless way, they invited me to gawk at their sensual queerness I was a teenaged girl learning how to hook a bra right before these bizarrely pretty toilets beautiful in ways only women were women who knew their worth and wore this certainty like their own skins *** eKY Flood Relief Annotation 8/5/22 Today's feature is Valerie Ison Horn. On quiet days at the Appalshop, I'd meander down to E. Main Street and poke my head into her office. Not that I could ever really pin her down; she was shoulders-deep in what seemed like everything that made Letcher County Farmers Market run. How does she do it all? I remember wondering as I gazed at the mountains of paperwork on her desk; then again, as she explained the Farmacy produce prescription program; yet again, as she led the community walk down the old railroad path to the market. Support her food access work as Letcher County rebuilds after days of floods: https://tinyurl.com/valhorn Return to the Kentucky Collection.
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