N.M. James Poems

Salem, Massachusetts 1692.
Nine generations back my great-grandmother Susannah North, is executed.
Her crime: witchcraft! Enchanting young women to exhibit fits of rage, which to some resemble a certain insanity. As punishment she is hung up high for the world to see. Her death served as a warning to all those who dare oppose established order. None shall suffer a witch to live, and today this message still stands.
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