Poetry about Texas
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Poetry about Texas
This short book is a Texan’s reflections on home through the lens of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets; or reflections on Four Quartets through the lens of Texas. It is available on Amazon for $6.99.
“Jagged, hopeful men
High on the dream of independence declared
At Washington-on-the-Brazos
Built and built again
A hardscrabble Capitol of whiskey-breath
Poker games and livestock
By the dusky molten bronze River
Singing low, they dug deep”
Excerpts from Four Texas Quartets:
“It is told by our Storytellers
That before the age of barbed wire
A steer driven from deep down in Texas as far as Kansas
Would sometimes turn around
Walk back along the trail and eventually
Arrive where he started”