Journeys along the Mississippi

The River of Forget


Grey, cold spells on the Delta are requiems.
Fitful sleep and broken purposes,
wrapped together in one lonely dream.
And the Blues speaks it all --
Screaming hearts and pale guitars
whisper until morning, an almost devilish curse
of want and want and want.

If you could hear the insatiable songs

in these crumbling houses surrounding us,
and hear the moans at midnight
of indescribable love and fleeting dreams,
if you could hear our hearts beating
on drums not made for war,

our pulse listless until dancing,

and this desperation flowing

down the banks of the Mississippi,

down the River of Forget,
down the nightmare-grieved cheeks of children
sleeping in soft beds at midnight.

Elysian Fields, Elmwood Cemetery: Memphis, TN

White Horse: Como, MS

Old Playground: Millington, TN

Red Lamp, National Ornamental Metal Museum: Memphis, TN

Braden: Southaven, MS

Prayer II, Forrest Hill Cemetery: Memphis, TN

Lonely Waters, The Mississippi River: Memphis, TN

Blues


Grigori II, Elmwood Cemetery: Memphis, TN

Prayer, Forrest Hill Cemetery: Memphis, TN

Kudzu: Como, MS

Passion