Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964 Comments

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It was not death we came to fear but her life,
her other birth, waking remade from the womb

of that disease. One leg was withered, a dragging-
numb weight behind her, one shoulder humped—
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Claudia Emerson
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Chatham, Virginia
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Chatham, Virginia
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