“Dark Kentucky Holler” by Sean Patrick Hill

A new poem by alumnus Sean Patrick Hill (poetry, ’13) appears online in The Collagist:

Dark Kentucky Holler

To the side
of the interstate, a few lights
by the barn,
dim house, dim star,
wavering beacon in the aftermath
of day
and of history,
but who’s to stop the piping
in of culture,
shrill news that penetrates
the purple curtain
and the telephone, smart phone,
information’s preternatural cough
flickering whatever it was
Emerson thought
a candle
to be—

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