Tag: appalachia
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Enough
What’s it feel like to want? That question seems to visit me a good bit lately. It used to just sit in that list of things my grandad would say. Not particularly high up, either. Just one of those filler lines that bulked up the collection, not one I found much use for in the…
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Names
Army time runs early, and o’dark-thirty comes fast. I’ve put this uniform on for thirty years. In the predawn dark, muscle memory does the work. Service-T, boot socks, uniform trousers, web belt, boots. My hands make the adjustments without being told. Last, the blouse. Patches, rank, name tapes, precisely in place. Regulations matter. The process…
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Mostly Home
There’s a spot in the world where the boot of Ohio presses into the soft underbelly of West Virginia. A place where the Ohio River makes its way west and, having never met the Mississippi, still thinks itself mighty. So much so, in fact, that every so often it tries to wipe the people and…
