{"id":2032,"date":"2026-01-03T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/white-doves-at-morning-htm-burke-james-lee\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:07:17","slug":"white-doves-at-morning-htm-burke-james-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/white-doves-at-morning-htm-burke-james-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"White Doves at Morning.htm – Burke, James Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE black woman’s name was
\nSarie, and when she crashed out the door of the cabin at the end of the
\nslave quarters into the fading winter light, her lower belly bursting
\nwith the child that had already broken her water, the aftermath of the
\nice storm and the sheer desolate sweep of leaf-bare timber and frozen
\ncotton acreage and frost-limned cane stalks seemed to combine and
\nstrike her face like a braided whip.<\/span><\/p>\n

She trudged into the grayness
\nof the woods, the male shoes on her feet pocking the snow, her breath
\nstreaming out of the blanket she wore on her head like a monk’s cowl.
\nTen minutes later, deep inside the gum and persimmon and oak trees, her
\nclothes strung with air vines that were silver with frost, the frozen
\nleaves cracking under her feet, she heard the barking of the dogs and
\nthe yelps of their handlers who had just released them.<\/span><\/p>\n

She splashed into a slough,
\none that bled out of the woods into the dark swirl of the river where
\nit made a bend through the plantation. The ice sawed at her ankles; the
\ncold was like a hammer on her shins. But nonetheless she worked her way
\nupstream, between cypress roots that made her think of a man’s knuckles
\nprotruding from the shallows. Across the river the sun was a vaporous
\nsmudge above the bluffs, and she realized night would soon come upon
\nher and that a level of coldness she had never thought possible would
\ninvade her bones and womb and teats and perhaps turn them to stone.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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