Kirk Judd
My People Was Music (Reprint)
by Kirk Judd
Includes QR code for MP3 download: Powerful spoken word performances, featuring some of West Virginia’s Finest poets and musicians.
ISBN: 9798985524284 — $20.00 ($4.63 US Shipping per order)
Also see Porch Poems!
Poems Were
under the steps and
at the end of the porch
beside the dead spot
in the grass
where all
the beer drinkers pee
out by the fence
where the old pipe
still leans
in the water
the well
the leech bed
in the seal
on the septic tank
in the mud
on the shovel
in the
boarded-up fireplace
the cupboards
the iron skillets
in the jar
of black snake skins
in the river
the campfire
the lilac bush
in the kitchen
when we weren’t looking
playing cards
or telling stories
and somehow
they found us anyway
words slipping
out of us
when we told
what happened
what we did
where we were when
and who was that that said
that thing we all remembered
and they still made sense
and they still do
and rhymed
in their own sweet time
and we never knew
we never knew
