July 2024 | David Baldwin

Residents Only

How is this different from the deep south?
There is no "Whites Only" sign
on the front of the Orange Grove Plunge.

John 12:1-8

Mother said her father,
my grandfather, had a request.
He wanted to take a drive

Their lyrics sealed the promise
of August of ’59,
There goes my baby
movin’ on down the line.

Sometimes on my morning run,
I hear the call and response
of two owls.
They move around,
never in the same place twice,
…