Margaret Abigail Walker

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    When and where will another come to take your holy place?
    Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?
    Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
    And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
    Bring terror to the young and old.
    O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
    Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    The clock runs down
    timeless and still.
    The days and nights turn hours to years
    and water in a gutter marks the circle of another world
    hating, resentful, and afraid
    stagnant, and green, and full of slimy things.
    Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
    And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
    Bring terror to the young and old.
    O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
    Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are.
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)