The Fiddler of Driskill Hill: Poems

Contents

Contents Bonfires on the Levee 1 Winter into Spring 3 In Waking Dream 4 The Breakers 7 North Louisiana Country Church in Flames 8 The Singing Wires 10 The Deep End 11 Hand-Me-Downs 12 Leaving Drexel Street: A Wife’s Goodbye 13 Summer Ending 15 In Allen Hall 16 Upon the Publication of a First Book of Poems 18 Warren in Thibodaux 19 Rapture at Twilight 20 Janitor 21 The Courtyard Plum 22 Before and After Reading 23 The Fairfield Gnomes 24 Daddy 25 Mother among the Graves 28 Deep Country Epitaph 29 Two for Life 31 In Winter Prime 32 x Black Lake Tales 33 Flies and Grounders 39 In the Bleak Midwinter 41 “If I should die before I wake”: Of a Daughter Who Died at the Age of Ten 43 The Latchkey Child 45 Home 50 The Farmer’s Almanac 51 The Sniper: Last Report from a Louisianian in Lee’s Tigers 53 Song of the Overseer 56 The Reenactor 57 The Given World 58 Epiphany in Lent 64 Parishioners 65 White Wings: Of Kate Mulvaney, Irish Acadian Traiteur 67 After Katrina: Noah’s Raven 71 Hurricane Baby 73 The Fiddler of Driskill Hill 74 The Fiddler of Driskill Hill This page intentionally left blank ...