Social History by Bobby C. Rogers

Author:Bobby C. Rogers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

the wind was prying at a section of the shack’s tin roof. I would be a long time

learning to paper my thin meanings

onto every porous wall, seams tight and pattern unbroken. My father didn’t glance

over, but I couldn’t help taking one last look

at the pin oak, dormant like everything else that time of year, grown up through

the floorboards only a little bit bent.

Americana

I didn’t mind being left with the old maid schoolteacher and her widow-woman

companion on those rare occasions when my parents were called

out of town. Every room of the house the old ladies shared was a treasure pile of

antiquities, so much to fascinate a ten-year-old boy. The past wasn’t real

for me, it was better than real. I would climb the front steps to the door that always

swung open before I pushed the bell—my satchel packed

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