My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...story is told by this place. The two of them lie beneath one stone, Mother and Father in cursive carved at the foot of the grave. My grandmother, as though...
Rent
...and thick as my thumb, invalid, being fed the house, birthing more of what would keep her fed. When I worried the place would fall, you laughed not in our...
Geography
...More than twenty years gone, he’s come back to see this place, recollect what he’s lost. What he recalls of my childhood is here. We find it in the brambles...
#598, Common Meter
...as an earnest of the place Has his own Spirit given. 5) “Tis pleasant to believe thy grace, But we had rather see: We would be...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
History: The Parlor
..."including cyclopedias and books of influence," one mahogany upholstered sofa, three wooden rocking chairs, and a sewing machine. The furnishings and their placement in this house was typical for the...
Junction City newspaper
...us a few boat loads of darkies, merely to give us a taste. In some places they are met with a flourish of patriotism and charity, in others with shot-guns...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...split in half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...who gave to the leaves of one yew the names of his own dead. Anyway the only spirits I can call in this place are the stench of a possum...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...certainly don't think that's a good way to do business," supporters of the redrawn district map contend that it corrects Democratic gerrymandering put in place in 2011 and creates a new...