Rich Pulsating White

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    The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
    Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)