Mary Ann Mulhern on The Midnight Moon Sings of Murder
An interview with poet laureate Mary Ann Mulhern on her latest book The Midnight Moon Sings of Murder. This is her eighth full book of poetry, and it focuses on the tragic murder of the Donnelly family in Lucan, Ontario.
Safety is a superstition; cleanliness a sin
On the farm you ate everything but the squeal on the pig. Washing before dinner meant joining the threshing crew and sloshing your wrists and splashing your face in the galvanized tub then wiping your hands on a common towel, the water blackened with earth and redolent with the smell of the sweat in the cloth of the rolled up sleeves of the men.