In Memory Hill Cemetery
...cross to the Black section. It slopes down to the creek in the bottom. If photos stop time how long does it take me to cross the cemetery? What do...
Nigger Street 1937
McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple red but not red delicious red but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went on the Pirate Ship three times,...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...break. Her father has taken time off from his job and they have followed the Appalachian Mountains south, stopping first in Gatlinburg, then the Smokies, and finally this river. She...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...
The Chimney
...stops at the glint from a rock, mica or quartz, and finds a coin so black and thin he can barely read the year — then, my father said, someone...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...baby continued to undergo treatment for eighteen months; the mother then stopped giving the child medication. Five months later, the mother returned with the baby and, upon performing tests, doctors...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...You feel like a runaway and you are surrounded by the 360 degree landscape. At key points you have to make decisions about whether to stop to gather food, tools,...
Whiskey and Geography
...government to drastically redraw its tax policy. While a whiskey tax remained on the books until the 1840s, the feds stopped collecting it for decades to come. Congress could find...
Like Father
...hand hungry For a discussion of Bible scriptures Over breakfast. He pours cups of coffee I can't stop Spilling. My father's embrace is firm and warm Now that he knows....