The Change
...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later, would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...
Rent
...will, with enough time, consume it— before going on to another survival. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009...
Aftermath
...sentence spoken the second time—truer, perhaps, with the blunt edge of a practiced tongue. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009...
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...
Lafayette, Louisiana images
...that part of south Louisiana settled in the late eighteenth century by French-descended refugees fleeing British rule in Canada. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
History: The Parlor
...county probate records, which not only inventoried and appraised household furnishings, but occasionally indicated the location of items within the house. The late-nineteenth-century inventory of the estate of Harriet Evins...
Substantiation
...one, hat pulled down, right behind. Three days later, the bluesman says, a plague of starlings gathered into little boys those who fished and found the dead man's foot. The...
Stones and Shadows
...asking where we've been. She holds the door open for us — me, the voice, my father's body. 2. Shadow In the late afternoon, he is cooking steaks on the...
The Chimney
...until the chimney stands marooned in the clearing in the woods, and later falls, smooth stones sliding down the hill, when someone, a young man walking to the creek mouth,...
Letter: Blues
...slate-branched tree sway from the roots — I've got to buy some proper, winter boots. So many boxes! Crates and crates of books. I must get oil soap, bleach, picture...