Nettie McDaniel

We have to highlight Nettie McDaniel's great piece "One in the community" in StorySouth, from 2008. It's quite unique and has a lovely, radiant quality that has this strange depth, this bottom in which things are not dormant. It's incredible.

Here's an excerpt:

A flock of egrets twinkle like the distant stars
as they fly above the golden stubble in the rice field.

[...] On the day you lay

with your eyes sewn together under a spray
of woody French mulberry, masses of egrets

stood [...]