Southern Legitimacy Statement: I fear that my complete listing of southern legitimacy would crash the cosmos & petunias so I shall HENCEFORTHWITH condense – I was born a coal miner’s son in the coal hollers of southwestern Virginia & as a child my family like many poor Appalachians migrated to many states in search of work – we returned and I started my education in a three room wooden school with outhouses and a well pump I went off into the city Nashville to get my education and moved to suburban Washington DC where I call myself and Urban Hillbilly . I call myself a GASP – Gay Alcoholic Southern Poet and write poetry & flash fiction & take lots of photographs as I meander the creeks and river banks searching for wild greens – mushrooms – pawpaws & other treats to forage and be consumed with my vegetables grown from the fertile southern soil.
The Gospel According to Fireflies
cicadian
sacred hymn
kyrie eleison
christe eleison
avian
chorus
flowers
incense
moon ascends
dusk descends
flickering
levitating
beacons
cosmic
preaching
eternal stars
fragility of life
drawn to
weary & wary
secular suburbia
gathering faith
in an old mason jar
