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Appalachian Elegy

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by bell hooks

makes our

  longings kill

  all is black

  coal black greed

  no way to choose life

  when greed

  brings the constant

  sound of death

  calling away

  deliverance

  64.

  daybreak

  night falling

  into blue shadow

  gray streaks

  as the trickster

  chases memory

  repeat

  tell

  the same stories

  until the past

  is left behind

  65.

  my world is green

  wild green

  green with no limits

  big bold green

  growing changing

  celebrates the

  green in things

  all green goodness

  66.

  fire so hot

  death so dry

  just ready

  to let loose

  fierce heat

  miles and miles

  of flames

  climbing hills and mountains

  felling trees

  calling all hearts

  to burn and break

  hold in memory

  lifelines gone

  a show of hands

  Index of First Lines

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  again and again

  all fields

  all old souls

  autumn ending

  barren broken hill

  blackbirds

  bring Buddha

  burning body of love

  burning pain

  clouds dressed in gray

  daybreak

  earth spirit

  earth works

  equine whispering

  fierce grief shadows me

  fierce unyielding winds

  fierce winter cold

  fire so hot

  fly high

  go high up

  hard rain

  harsh winter wind

  hear them cry

  heavy heart

  here and there

  in the gray blue wash of dawn

  lingering twilight

  listen little sister

  mammoth caves

  migrating birds

  morning dawn

  mud sliding down

  my world is green

  night moves

  no crops grow

  on hallowed ground

  overlooking water

  pink and white oleander

  red beard

  renegades roam here

  returning to sacred places

  ritual places

  small horses ride me

  snow-covered earth

  softly treading black bear

  soil rich with lime

  sometimes falling rain

  stained black

  stark stolen sky

  star of david

  straight ahead

  sublime shadows of midnight

  such then is beauty

  sunken faces

  take the

  tap dancing

  the glory in old barns

  toward light

  turtle islands everywhere

  walking the long way home

  when the dawn

  when trees die

  wilderness within

  winds of fate

  wingspan wide

  with water

  Kentucky Voices

  Miss America Kissed Caleb

  Billy C. Clark

  New Covenant Bound

  T. Crunk

  The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems

  James Baker Hall

  Upheaval: Stories

  Chris Holbrook

  With a Hammer for My Heart: A Novel

  George Ella Lyon

  Famous People I Have Known

  Ed McClanahan

  Noth ing Like an Ocean: Stories

  Jim Tomlinson

  Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War

  Richard Taylor

  At The Breakers: A Novel

  Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

  Come and Go, Molly Snow: A Novel

  Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

  Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York

  Frank X Walker

  When Winter Come: The Ascension of York

  Frank X Walker

  The Cave

  Robert Penn Warren

 

 

 


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