By Christopher Zoukis
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Death in paradise.
In a nondescript cemetery, small yet serene, there’s a grave. It was dug by a black woman named Defilee. Plunging her shovel into the moist earth, she would scoop the dirt out. But some always got by the blade of the shovel, so then she knelt, scraping and pushing the marbled dirt with her bare hands. She began to sweat, some of it trickling into her eyes, stinging them. She’d stop to wipe it away, using her wrist b...
Published on July 02, 2014 07:32