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POETRY The Stem of Jesse Taliaferro
See him walk back to the burying
in the noon sun climbing the blue
His father culled the Holy Scripture
The red clay rots family backbones,
Edward C. Lynskey "The Stem of Jesse Taliaferro" originally appeared in Borderlands Texas Poetry Review No. 7 (Fall/Winter 1995) |
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