And She Was Happy
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And She Was Happy Author(s): Carol Potter Source: The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 143-144 Published by: University of Iowa Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154555 . Accessed: 16/06/2014 23:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Iowa Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.49 on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:17:54 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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And She Was HappyAuthor(s): Carol PotterSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 143-144Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154555 .
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Carol Potter
And She Was Happy
Sister has learned how to walk around dry eyed. She's picked up the knack.
Here she comes across the field
on a swollen ankle. Sprained it
running too fast around a corner.
She goes down to the stream,
puts the ankle in the cold water.
She can hear the cows in the barn?
their wet voices pooling in the trees
around her; water with its tongue at her ankle, that chilled bone,
and she's happy listening to the spring breeze in some slightly budded trees, enough green in them
to keep them from clicking. She keeps her eyes open
and her mouth shut.
She's all business.
When the horse threw her,
knocked her out,
she woke up, saw the horse's
broad belly above her,
and she was happy. Horse could have galloped home,
but stayed. She stood up, looked into the horse's eyes, saw herself upside down
and out of shape. Certain she saw remorse
in the horse's brown eye,
she was happy, and the world
she thought was full of mercy.
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She got up on the horse and rode home.
Told no one about her cracked
head, the blood on her shirt,
where so much happiness came from.
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