tennessee

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nashville coffeehouse
music's cheap - play outside, and
hope big boys walk by
(2-10)







fresh round bales of hay -
we talk van gogh, monet, sartre
right into memphis
(2-10)






visage of buddha
gravestone in a blount weed patch
eighteen sixty four
(12-11)






pigeon forge tourists
van with air-con, dvd
old dolly movies
(1-07)





two weeks in the woods,
then, ducktown piggly-wiggly -
rafters count their change
(11-13)






chattanooga yard
promise - i'll head out west, where
pollen don't choke you
(2-10)






under highway bridge
sleeping bag against concrete
fall rain, nashville fade
(8-05)





obed valley fog,
river's gurgle, leaves afire -
she wants to settle
(11-13)





clinch mountain hollow
dead leaves an extra blanket
cabin's wood smoke drifts 
(7-05)

hundreds 'f homebirths on, 
at the farm on christmas, she marks 
her own arrival
(11-14)

on past whitehaven,
glazed roads make it hard to stop -
glance back at graceland
(11-13) 






turning toward tazewell,
wood smoke 'n' fog, apparition
an old cadillac
(11-13)






vale of wild ginseng,
southern part of clinch mountain -
strong tea when it blooms
(2-10)






from birds point levee
river's crest is relentless
bound for mud island
(5-11)






at forty eight feet
forked deer, wolf, loosahatchie
are backed up, he says
(5-11)

liv'n in school buses, 
droppin' acid - still couldn't b'lieve 
this tennessee spring 
(11-14)

silence, campfire, tea,
heron lands on the obed -
easter app'rition
(11-13)

city's modesty -
tennessee's tributaries'
fog shrouds its dogwoods
(11-13)