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  • Wild Indigo, Because
  • Cyrus Cassells (bio)

When rice was our nemesis and callous-making cotton,

and the onus of a Satan-hot tobacco

seemed to stain our very souls,

beyond the spirit-choking pest houses of Sullivan Island

(our Ellis Island), beyond the dust and ragtag

squalor of slave row, we found a dew-soaked,

purplish blue in the needed time—

imagine, in a siren patch

behind the blacksmith’s— a God-sent and doe-wild blue. [End Page 12]

Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells, a resident of Austin and Paris (France), is author of four books of poems: The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, and More Than Peace and Cypresses. He is a professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches courses in creative writing.

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