Debra Allbery: Incunabula


Ridge and hollow, where I began:
Hollow said holler, creek said crick.

Every word my father spoke
spelled itself, unspooled within

and I kept it here, hid it beneath
the flat heartland where I was raised,

squaring the vowels, stitching lost endings.
My accent, moved north, said elsewhere.

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