Conjures the raven—   shaggy-throat! shit-eater! old ballyhoo!   black our head- lights, bank our chevy hull our   dog pens dovecotes milk crates   where drowse our blue tick bobcat grouse, dove   drown us in rain- bow oil plumage   hinterland my bones   stomping ground my ribcage   stone’s throw my brains   my skull for barbed wire nests   … Continue reading Two Poems by Carolyn Hembree