This is a painting I completed during a two hour art project called Share produced by my friend Kathleen Lane. Below is the prose that was written for it as well as collaged onto it:The Curry Family
The Curry family once lived
up the street from me. Their 12
became 10 after two kids drowned
in the pond out back.
Mama Curry cooked biscuits with
lard from the pigs they slaughtered.
Her daughter, Ruby, and I were
best friends. We played in the wild
strawberry fields, caught tadpoles in the
pond, and made her little brother
eat mud pies.
On the door to their back porch
hung twenty or so chicken feet - remnants
of dinners past.
By Lorna Nakell © 2009