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Photo by Margarita Trofimova: https://www.pexels.com/photo/holodomor-memorial-in-autumn-20875115/

A Ukrainian Diet (Remembering Holodomor) 

by Ihor Pidhainy Bread and potatoes, Add a dollop of cream, A cabbage, a beat, a carrot, And the occasional cutlet or chicken, And you have your diet Foolproof for centuries Unless a famine strikes, Your neighbor steals your grain,  And other crops are siphoned off. Your children and parents thin out And die, and you hobble along Until your neighbor…

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The community church for funerals

The Funeral

by Frank Jamison Y’all don’t know the whole story, and I can’t tell it all here. It’s too long. But Elbert Wiggins was killed in Hatchie Landing a long time ago. Two men, Malcolm Oakes and Bennie Hoskins, had something to do with it. My June’s husband, Nathan, died in…

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