The State House Aflame 1833
...water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
Nigger Street 1937
...closing red as the congregation rises. Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill...
Just as Sure
...own level where it settles. Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...butter from packin’ four corner nabs even after the shower down spot a teamster card on the visor Published in Off-Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005)....
Consolation
...the back bench seat of some Rambler or Packard or 56 Chevy we've found just to take them back, maybe Boyett, too, maybe Boyett in front, beside the wheel, cruising...
Antietam
...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...
Geography
...of blackberry, the coins flattened on the tracks. We can’t help it— already, we’re leaning too hard toward metaphor: my father searching for the railroad switch. It was here, right...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, two folkies found you in the singing vinyl and asked, "How do you do that with a guitar?" and searched maps of Mississippi for the...
The Flood
...full of water. And think of my birth: the scalpel, my mother’s skin parting like a sea of red water. In the dream of the flood I'm always the one...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...[sic] time they arrived there was quite a crowd gathered, and the woods and fields in the vicinity of Ponce de Leon were thoroughly searched, but no trace of the...