Cane

"If you walked up the Dixie Pike most any time of the day, you'd be most like to see her resting listless-like on the railing of her borch, back propped against a post, head tilted a little forward because a nail in the porch post just where her head came which for some reason or other she never took the trouble to pull out."

I love this sentence. Maybe it's the hypotaxis. Maybe it's the complete disregard for so many grammatical rules. But probably it's the grace with which Toomer pulls this off, how easy he makes it look. It's almost dialect, but not quite. Still it has all the implications of dialect, like a verbal texture almost. I don't have a mimicking sentence just yet, but I'll work on it.