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The Plankhouse Revisited

By on Apr 23, 2013 in Poetry | Comments Off

photo of the Plankhouse by Wade Allen                                   I.  The awesome mist of some unknown flower            Sprindges my voice into my father’s words —            This plantation’s not what we used to work, When Pap George, his father, David, held our Future in slavery, though we knew that its hour             Had come:  I think of the women —        ...

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