Axe, Fire, Mule
By C. D. Albin
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The collection contains fifty-one poems divided into five sections, each (except the truncated last) containing eleven poems. The first section, Ozark Dark, introduces the rocky landscape and heavy mud of the Ozarks, the coyotes, bobcats, and deep poverty with which farm families cope. In the second section, Marooned
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Axe, Fire, Mule - C. D. Albin
AXE, FIRE, MULE
The Ozarks
From Milton Rafferty, The Ozarks as a Region: A Geographer’s Description.
OzarksWatch, SMSU Center for Ozarks Studies, vol. 1, no. 4, 1988, p.3.
Axe, Fire, Mule
Poems by
C. D. Albin
Copyright 2018 by C. D. Albin
Cover Image Copyright 2018 by Dawn Surratt
Interior Photographs 2018 by Kelli Jean Albin
National Council of Teachers of English holds the copyrights for the five poems previously published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College: Down- sized
; English as a Second Language
; Following Mr. Parks
; Sign
; and Speech Lessons.
Used with permission.
All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be duplicated in any way without the expressed written consent of the publisher, except in the form of brief excerpts or quotations for review purposes.
ISBN: 978-1-936135-59-2
Published by and available at:
Golden Antelope Press
715 E. McPherson
Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Phone: (660) 665-0273
http://www.goldenantelope.com
Email: ndelmoni@gmail.com
These poems of struggle, survival, and hard-earned love are as stark and solid as a rocky Ozark hillside.
An impressive rendering of a unique place and the people who inhabit it, told in a language
that is as fresh and inviting as a mountain stream.
—Robert Hamblin, Author of Dogwood Winter and Other Seasons
To Mary Maxine Albin,
my mother,
my exemplar for grace and courage,
faith and resilience.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
OZARK DARK
Here and Now
All Else
Radney’s Tree
Speck of Shine
Searcher
Lament
Parade
The Runner
Stick Pony
Irish Wilderness
MAROONED
Thrown
I Will Send Her Safely Past
Shadow Box
Sinkhole
Blessed Those Days
White as Lime
Allen’s Boy
Nine Days
Glaucoma
Hard of Hearing
AXE, FIRE, MULE
Barn Chore
This Same Field
Intruder
What Drought Has Brought
Burn Ban
Pharaoh Dreamed of Cattle
This Side
Mine
Restoration
White-tail
ROSE OF SHARON
Downsized
English as a Second Language
Speech Lessons
Sign
Following Mr. Parks
Endgame
Revision
At Shiloh
Soldier Home
Old Order
WILL AND TESTAMENT
Cicero Jack, Farmer, Rues the Ruin of an Ozark River
Cicero Jack Considers the Cougar’s Return
Cicero Jack Contemplates the Heart-Stays People
Cicero Jack Ponders Relics of the Osage
Acknowledgements:
ALIVE Magazine: Cicero Jack Ponders Relics of the Osage
Big Muddy: Blessed Those Days
; Marooned
; White-tail
; "Cicero Jack Remembers Tom Cochran’s