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The disease of the Carolinas

Sam Silva

A Hot January

First publication: September 2001

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In a trailer beside the river

clustered by strange dreams

of wildflower and willow

my feet are stuck to this humid tar.

How will I follow you down

on highways the saints deliver

to Florida’s golden peninsula? Sara.

And the nights are humid and brown,

their breath is a wheeze against a dew damp pillow

that dreams of a distant star.

Yet sure on that pathway I will

pull my feet from the mortal ground

and swallow the world like a pill.