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Cia White

Cia White retired this spring from thirty years of teaching high school English and Creative Writing. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Nonfiction

Summer 1995

What We Will Call Nature

By Cia White

When the world wearies And society ceases to satisfy There is always the garden—Nineteenth-century homily, cross-stitched, framed and hung on a bedroom wall in the late years of the twentieth […]

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What We Will Call Nature

By Cia White

From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Summer-Autumn 1995, Vol. XVII, No. 3/4 When the world wearies And society ceases to satisfy There is always the garden      —Nineteenth-century homily, cross-stitched, framed […]