A Knock
04/28/2026 14:58h
Vinnie Two Crow from the trailer at the school crossroads
has walked up through the snow, bringing a loaf
of pumpkin bread. Takes her big boots off
and sits for coffee.Clem’s always treated us good.
—You up here had too much trouble. I open the bread,
and she asks about the quilt in my hoop. Stray
lightning quilt, charred toys quilt—I don’t need to say
that.If you want, she says,I brought some sage along. Good
smoke might take away the bad, I told Clem out at the barn.
—If you got an old bowl or something to burn it in.