In the Night Orchard

In the Night Orchard is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South. These often-narrative poems are concerned with history, race, indigenous music, the many Southern dialects and customs and the quest for authentic identity.  

Skull, Grim, and Grinning

I forgot how barbed wire snarls—
like a low bird’s ...