Brett Gordon Batton

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Appalachia Bare •

With Love, West Virginia

I spy my love

along the ridge,

a silhouette

in shadows of black.

I stand with my heart

a breakin’

‘fore I fear

he’s not coming back.

We were to be married

this autumn

but the war broke out

in June.

With brothers at odds

in the fighting,

I fear this is no

Civil tune.

Visions of blood, tears

and sorrow,

I fear he isn’t

so well.

I pray for the wake

of tomorrow,

and for my love,

I cast a spell.

I summon the thing

that shall not be named.

He appeared as a

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