APPALACHIA, MAN: CAN YOU DIG IT?
Turn a furrow and find
arrowheads, iridescent beetles,
pop bottles, decapitated dolls,
carbide lamps.
Dig deeper.
Beneath Wal-Mart's parking lot
find the wisp of a tobacco field.
At the DQ, catch the milky ghost
of a farmer's wife.
Look beyond Cracker Barrel,
the car dealership,
the call center,
the prison.
Find hard-faced boys
with anthracite eyes,
who were too wise too soon,
schooled in hell's shafts,
seams and slack.
Dig deeper.
Don't discard the shards.
Can you dig it?
"Appalachia Man: Can You Dig It?" A! Magazine for the Arts, vol. 15, no. 4. (April 2008).
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Wonder whats under my old house.
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