Fairy Tale

The Appalachians were first-rate with cigs
I think because they itched to modernize
& were biologically agitated like most settlers
& pioneers & colonists mixed in with natives
such as, on the whole, the Cherokee. But then
time passed as time in the mountains always does
if you give it time enough & the Appalachians
woke up one day wanting over & above the smokes
a little more distance between the old Grannies
& them as in the old pinto beans & cornbread
& the old garden & the old …

The Future Was To Be Lighter

And to weigh less. And to exemplify somehow
a more celestial routine

or at least not be so straight-up
old prairie weed and wind.

It was to be wraithlike and comprise
a …