Appalachian Heritage Quarterly

In my next few posts I will be featuring work from the new African American issue of APPALACHIAN HERITAGE journal.
Go to http://community.berea.edu/appalachianheritage/ to learn more about this publication.





Red Dirt Blues


Craziness in
concentric interlocking circles.
But look closely
at old photographs.
See? That heaviness
at the corners of
the mouth. Even in
smiles, the lips
turn down
in sadness. Familial, communal
concentric interlocking sadness

binding

------doris davenport