- Whippoorwill
The night Silas Broughton died
neighbors at his bedside heard
a dirge rising from high limbs
in the nearby woods, and thought...
- The Skeleton In The Dogwood
(Watauga County, 1895)
Two lovers out walking found
more than spring's promised blessing...
- The Price
Knee deep in the Watauga's
rock leaping whitewater,
my brother loses his balance,
his life if our father...
- The Men Who Raised The Dead
If they had hair it was gray,
the backs of their hands wormy
currents of blue veins, old men
the undertaker believed...
- The Exchange
Between Wytheville, Virginia
and the North Carolina line,
he meets a wagon headed
where he's been, seated beside...