Saturday, April 24, 2010

Stars and Bars

In the southern forest
Grow magnolias and moss,
The kudzu--mad tourist—
A memory of loss,

Bark-bandaged bullet holes
And blood-besotted ground—
Everywhere, grey souls
March around and around

Under a shadow moon,
Under the owl’s death-gaze,
Whistling that Dixie tune
Through ghost lips all their days.

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