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whipping post
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whipping post
scene of Christ’s scourging. [N.T.: Matthew 15:15]


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Slender evergreens, with long, erect branches, such as junipers, are often the whipping posts for winter gales.
An ancient map shows where whipping posts and stocks were sited, near to the infamous 'cage', or city jail.
Summoning spirits: calloused-palm field hands, wet nurses and house negresses, backs bloodied at whipping posts, we strip limbs from hanging-trees, read out rights of passage, walk towards freedom in a throng.
 
 
 
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