Trenton Gin
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when i was growing up there was still cotton being grown on my Father's land -- one time we stopped and got into the field and i tried pulling some cotton out and it was harder than i thought because the cotton resisted -- the cotton was full of black seeds my Father said had to be carded out, that the cotton gin revolutionized the process by getting the seeds out of the cotton better and faster -- the dark brown boll tips were very sharp and my Father said that that's why people's hands would bleed when they picked cotton, because they would get cut on the boll -- i imagined all this blood on the cotton and asked my Father how they got the blood out
© Summer, 2001
Amy Jackson