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Dreams of the Raven
The Other Voices International Project has begun assembling the 20th volume of their anthology. Along with the Bulgarian-German poet Jonka Hristova, Lebanese-American poet Dima Hilal, Greek poet Dimitris P. Kraniotis, and the Californian Naia, you will find our own Wanda D. Campbell’s collection Dreams of the Raven. Several of the poems featured there are works that Wanda has very graciously let me reproduce on this blog, including “Tobacco Patch Princess” and “The Killin’“.
Wanda D. Campbell grew up in the Appalachian foothills, less than ten miles from the home of Mark Twain’s mother and in the shadow of the great Appalachian writer, Janice Holt Giles. Her influences have come from many sources, most notably Appalachian culture and her own Melungeon and Mexican-American heritage. You’ll find a link to her blog, Raven’s Shadow, on the sidebar. And she is the second member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society to be featured in this series. Not bad, huh?
Daddy’s Hope
Daddy broke his back
when a shaft caved in.
Took em three days
to dig him out.
It was Mommy’s picture
what kept him alive.
He held it to his breast
where it kissed
every beat of his heart,
him lying there
with his legs penned,
unable to move,
‘cept for his left arm.
Mommy and I stood
on the sidelines that day
when they hauled him out
One survivor, unconscious,
with a picture in his hand.
— Wanda D. Campbell
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