Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay

Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay — page 7
kitchen knife and thrust it into a tree trunk The sisters were each other's best friends calling each other for decades to come by silly nicknames that came from one of their favorite childhood songs an old college tune Cora liked to sing to them There was a man who had two sons and those two sons were brothers Josephus was the name of one and Bohunkus was the other For the rest of their lives Vincent was Sefe and Norma was Hunk Kath leen became mysteriously Wump It's no surprise that all three sisters learned to sing play the piano perform and write poetry when they were very young these were Cora's passions and she shared them with her daughters as naturally as she breathed Cora's poems had appeared in New England publications and before she married she had given concerts locally advertising them as Miss Buzzell's Concerts In fact she had met handsome Henry blonde blue eyed and broad shouldered at a dance where she was one of the musicians Page 17