Wild Wonderful,
West Virginia

“Almost Heaven West Virginia. . . Country roads take me home to the place I belong."

-John Denver (Country Roads)

 

We are all hillbillies they say.

We have no front teeth.

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I have always been

living in the mountains nooks and cranny’s

seeing the stars peek their eyes on a Saturday evening

glistening toward the smiling moon.

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We are all spitting country folk they say.

We have no cleanliness they say.

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I have spent my whole life

enthralled by the autumn leaves

spreading in and out of the hills

their red yellow arms fluttering to the ground.

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We are all rednecks they say.

We have married our cousins they say.

 

 

After high school, I was ­­

prepared to leave

the olden rocky pieces

of a broken dreamy river.

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Everyone’s always leavin’

The mountains are always callin’.

We will come a followin’.