Consolation
...maybe we could, a minute, rejoice that no one will ever fall from this height again, no one will tangle three months in the river and be raised up anonymous...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sound chamber. But the tone of the strings on the other neck was yours, old sweet-playing father. In the late twenties, they cut a few minutes of you into vinyl...
Theories of Time and Space
...markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion — dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where rigging of shrimp boats are...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time. Published in The Boatloads...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...simply for their architecture. All winter the dying have set their tables and now they are almost as black as the profound waters off Guam. A few minutes ago, when...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...mist her hair with her "Big Sexy Hair" spray, and drive us five minutes to school before heading to the office and further patients to visit and administrative duties to...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Years a Slave. In closing, I would like to share a couple of minutes of the SOTA production, one that has been very faithful to my vision. The focus on...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...a spring but sink into which trees and highway, bank and fields are sipped away to minuteness. All split on the present then merge in stretched perspective, radiant in reverse,...
Theories of Time and Space
...on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...New York, and several other cities on the East Coast, and recorded ten songs: a total of just twenty-two minutes of music, what Christgau called “their tiny life” in liner...