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Waking Past Midnight collects elements of the rough South and life as a teenager on the Delta, tinged with threat and violence.
In my late teens a pewter flask
Rode my hip and I tucked in my right boot
An eight-inch blade crafted in dimpled bone.
I didn’t court trouble, but knew cemeteries
Were full of coffins, their rubber gaskets
Rotting in the August humidity.

In Greenwood, Mississippi, my maternal
Grandfather primed his rage with bonded
Whiskey. He loved to roll the bones, to shoot
The jive with dock-hands behind the Quinn
Drug Co. A blue .38 riding his hip, he passed
The collection plate odd Sundays, blackjack
Tucked in his breast pocket. Some devout
Church-goer whispered how a white hood
And sheet haunted his bedroom closet.

Waking Past Midnight: Selected Poems

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    Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press
    Publication Date: 31/10/2023
    ISBN13: 9781622882458, 978-1622882458
    ISBN10: 1622882458

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Waking Past Midnight collects elements of the rough South and life as a teenager on the Delta, tinged with threat and violence.
    In my late teens a pewter flask
    Rode my hip and I tucked in my right boot
    An eight-inch blade crafted in dimpled bone.
    I didn’t court trouble, but knew cemeteries
    Were full of coffins, their rubber gaskets
    Rotting in the August humidity.

    In Greenwood, Mississippi, my maternal
    Grandfather primed his rage with bonded
    Whiskey. He loved to roll the bones, to shoot
    The jive with dock-hands behind the Quinn
    Drug Co. A blue .38 riding his hip, he passed
    The collection plate odd Sundays, blackjack
    Tucked in his breast pocket. Some devout
    Church-goer whispered how a white hood
    And sheet haunted his bedroom closet.

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