The Change
...hung down like butterfly wings, though sometimes the color of luna moths, or Carolina parakeets, when just an hour ago they had been laid upon the old wooden...
Rent
...us and spiders—seasonless—survived the broom to live in every corner, their egg sacs hung like soft, spun pearls. Every spring, the bedroom filled with termites flying, having come up from...
#598, Common Meter
...And here my spirit waiting stands, Till God shall bid it fly. 3) ‘Tis he, by his almighty grace That forms thee fit for heaven: And...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...And I wouldn't have no better pastimes than to be with my sweet. Well I wish I was a turtle dove, had wings and could fly Just now to my...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...black sparks fly, a hive of bumblebees which hum at your body and do not sting. 6. Egg yolk, crocus, buttercup, butter, dandelion, sunflower, sunbeam, sun, chicken fat, legal pads,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
Prayer of the Backhanded
...arm Like an angel's invisible wing May fly backward in fury Whether or not his son stands near. Help me hold in place my blazing jaw As I think to...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...expending everything else. In other words, dirty ecology is the science of halfway practices. We know that driving and flying and industrial pollution and living in drywall houses destroys the...