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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 195–201.
Published: 01 September 2005
... or mismanaged, we undermine our quality oflife and that offuture generations. Tree planting became a natural choice to address some of the initial basic needs identified by women. Also, tree planting is simple, attainable and guarantees quick, successful results within a reasonable amount time. This sustains...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to pick weeds. I sat on a red patch of dirt with a stick I found and poked at the ground. Thirty minutes later, Grammy strode over to me and offered a fig she had just plucked off the tree. I scratched a mosquito bite on my arm and shook my head. “Suit yourself,” she said, sinking her teeth into the juicy...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... it over your face. MEE NA ALEXANDER ELEGY FOR MY FATHER 51 If this is the end oflife, the three priests sang, what use are .9nanam, dhanam,kavya? Princes and potentates have come to this crawling on all fours. After I covered your eyes a warm rain fell over teak and mango trees. We turned eastward away...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Meena Alexander MEENA ALEXANDER TheGarden I. A space without historyAt the rim of the pond Grandmother loosens her sari Steps into water Her skinglistens, utterly naked. No one remembers this. Lotus petals flicker Float to the axle-tree Tree of Heaven They call it in the family. Byits roots...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Not in the swamps Not by the river Not behind a log or in a tree White men with guns White men with badges Eyes blinded by white hate Simon Schulman was never found again White men with guns approached his house after dark Hiding their participation, hunting their prey, a man not an animal...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 17–19.
Published: 01 March 2003
... before she crossed over, she held the phone a little longer. "Maybe," she said, "maybe you could send some paper and what about one of those fat juicy pens?" Imagine that, you asking me for paper. For the record let me state I would hunt a tree down for you, stalk it until it fell all loud and out...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 166–168.
Published: 01 December 2020
... I would hunt a tree down for you, stalk it until it fell all loud and out of breath in the forest. Much as I love a tree, fat, tall and free. As anti-violent and pro-vegetarian as I am. Never been much for strapping a gun to any of my many hips, for any reason whatsoever...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Around the plantation managers' houses, better soil had been imported from more fertile areas to grow rich green grass, colorful hibiscus and oleander hedges, crimson sprays ofbougainvillea vines, mango and other fruit trees, and, of course, coconut and royal palm trees. We're told that the first sketch...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Just trees, water, sunlight, and small pockets of shade. Here, her body had returned to its full and more solid shape. Her feet could feel the warmth of the sand, her hands could touch the smoothness of her cheek. By the shore, she saw a boat. There was the tune again; she was getting closer. She...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 56–57.
Published: 01 September 2005
... a southern moon believe in this swaying from side to side necklace of woman's body southern moon toomer's tune truth ofbillie's tree believe the necklace of a woman's body that heavens should be raining still that billie's tree sings truth that a phrase is draped at the wood's throat heavens should...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
... for granted? And what might memory mean? And holding a fresh copy ofTheWavesin my hand, for that old dark book in my grandmother's bedroom has vanished, I sit in my room in Manhattan, the green trees of summeroutside mywindow. ltry to recall what sense I made of two figures, each no more than an outline, yet...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., the questions posed here consider the religious import of Danticat’s literary works as “sacred texts” of Haiti and the Haitian dyaspora . KMD: I’m interested in pursuing a future project that traces a genealogy of matriarchs, trying to identify the last site where we can trace Vodou in our family tree. I...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 September 2000
... farmer's daydream Bento box filled with nori eggs, Ume for luck Pickled nasubi from ojichan's garden. I am from the mud puddles Under the mango trees, Beneath the bleachers First base line Clinging to mama's skirt Kingyonounko. I am the graveyard plumeria The beef stew bones Clattering on the bottom...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 74–75.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... It was close to closing time, but we-Blanche, Alice Kessler-Harris, and I-suddenly realized that it was the last day that the great Christmas tree with its Neapolitan creche would be on display. We raced through the museum as guards called out "sminutes please"; we were faced with a phalanx of guards, sweeping...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 156–160.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to freedom. I would pick up a stick and put it in my waistband and pull it out like a gun when the runaway slaves would talk about going back to Egypt. I would duck down in the trees and tell everybody to quiet down so that I could hear the dogs and come up with a plan to hide from them. I used to look up...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... later years, she builds her case that Pleasant was a-if not the-major source of Brown's funds on two pieces of evidence. First, a note was found on Brown at the time of the raid that read, "The axe is laid at the foot of the tree. When the first blow is struck there will be more money to help. -M. E. P...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Figure 1. “Cynthia’s Love Tree.” Courtesy of the author. ...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 September 2005
... then embarked on what would become a life-long campaign against the government-backed forest clearances in Kenya. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement when she planted nine tree seeds in the yard of her house. In the following years, she succeeded in persuading women across Africa to do the same. Today...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 206–210.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for the first time and says I am a girl. Then he goes limp again, like a bat fast asleep in a tree. He might as well have slapped my face, and I gasp. For a moment, I cannot think. Then I pretend not to have heard him as I look around for a way to get on the monkey bars. [Meridians:feminismr,acet...
