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Inexpiable

By David Stallings © 2003

U.S. Plans Lightning Strikes;
Terrorism Alert Raised to ‘High.’
Our weekly
compassionate listening circle
takes in this small room,
where I lie next
to a young German man,
holding his hand.
He sobs and chatters
through Holocaust guilt,
his father’s silence,
and the sense that his people
are flawed, cracked.
He believes that evil
may emerge at any time,
sucking him into
a violent darkness.
A son of the American South,
I listen.

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By David Stallings © 2002

We drive to the Homeplace,
near the old Enterprise Community,
Gibson County, West Tennessee.
Here Granny and Daddy Joe raised
the kids who lived,
my father the youngest,
and buried the five who didn’t.
Burned by lightening decades ago,
only mounds of brick and
rickety outbuildings remain.
There, the smoke house;
here, a chit box
used to pay hired help.
Forgotten lives quicken,
roused in stories told
by aging cousins,
bent [...]

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