The evidence from the poem - Parsley that shows that the General's mother used to work in the cane fields are references made to fields of sugar cane in connection to his mother's smile, which is gnawed to arrowheads.
Rita Dove is the rightful author of Parsley. The Poem Parsley is based on the story of mass killings, which in history occurred around the year 1937.
The poem references a General. This character is actually Rafael Trujillo who at that time was a military dictator of the country.
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