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A poem from Frank X Walker’s latest collection, Load in Nine Times

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As spring arrives, one of the South’s most prolific poets takes us from the celestial to the earthly and back again.

Appalachian men and women: their weathered hands, the horseshoes over their doors, and the angels that watch over them.

Chock full of images, an ode to the spirit of the New South.

In 1998, Atlanta author Mark Beaver’s father asked him to write to the governor of Texas and call on him to stay the execution Karla Faye Tucker—a question that left him to ponder the tug of war between mercy and justice.

He was singing a song lamenting the murder of George Floyd when a woman who had stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, said she didn’t agree. Not at all.

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