The Clerestory Podcast S1 E25

The Oklahoma Tenant Farmer and Me
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Mary Lane Potter

Mary Lane Potter’s books include the novel A Woman of Salt (Counterpoint) and Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry (Counterpoint). Her essays have appeared in River Teeth, Witness, Parabola, Tablet Magazine, SUFI Journal, Leaping Clear, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Minerva Rising, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and others. Learn more on her website.

essay This Tricksy Body

The mind plays tricks on us. This we know. The heart is deceitful above all things. This we accept. But the body is the consummate con artist.