Basin Ghosts by Graves Jesse;

Author:Graves, Jesse;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2014-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

I brought the past inside me, carried it everywhere I’ve been,

Rode with it across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico,

Coursing my blood beneath tamaracks in the Vermont woods.

It guided me between gravestones of Taylor’s Grove Church,

The learning deeper in me than soil in the tread of my shoes.

There are many ways to study Tennessee history.

One of them is to sit on Malcolm Walker’s front porch

As late afternoon unspools across his yard,

And the hills of John Jess Lay Hollow rise up around us.

Listen as the soft cadences of his ninety-one-year-old voice

Bring forth “Each Day I’ll Do a Golden Deed,”

The song Sawmill Dewey Ellis sang

At Ruble Johnson’s funeral, great-uncle who died

When my grandmother was a girl of sixteen.

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