Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby

37 Douglas Kearney Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby —Emmett Till (1941–1955) cattail cast tattles Till tale, lowing low along the hollow; cricket chirrup and ribbit lick-up. what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow. skin scow skiffing upon pond scum skin, going slow along the hollow. now may mayfly alight brown brow. what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow. maybe bye baby bye baby by and by, lowing low along the hollow. we will slip the knot not slip will we? what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow. who’s a bruise to blue hue ’hatchie, going slow along the hollow? whose a bruise to whose hue, ’hatchie? what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow. Kodak flash tattles Till tale going slow among the hollow. who’s a bruise to bruise hue? swallow what the ’hatchie chucks. ...