Capitalism
Along the two-lane blacktops of my childhood we stopped to buy watermelons. Mother thumped them, listening for that deep, ripe […]
Appalachian Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes
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Latino/Chicano Poets, Poems, Tributes
The Two of Me
Like Frida, there are two of me. But they don’t sit next to each other, hold hands, or watch the
Appalachian Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes
Mandolin
When Grandma Cecil tickled her bright mandolin below her chin it seemed she scratched an itch and shivered something near
Appalachian Poets, Poems, Tributes
Smoke
Junior Hughes had just stepped out from Chick’s Burger Bar squinting into the glare of early summer sun, his toothpick
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Pipeline Surveyors
I resent the men who’ve come to mark our land. On breaks they sit inside their giant pickup trucks,
Audio, Poems, Sonnets, Tributes
The Circus of Inconsolable Loss
There is only one ring for those sweating horses with the preternaturallyflat backs and the fat smooth rumps from which