Antebellum Ghosts

Wind of History by Jacek Yerka

Antebellum stares

with broken glass eyes

at the flooded bones

of yesterday littering

the front lawn.

Moss etches an epitaph

into the crumbling sentries

of pillar and stone that attempted

to defend slavery’s bastion

from the onslaught of freedom.

Centuries lie in rusted amnesia

bleeding its forgotten lessons

into the soil once fertile with rebirth.

Gone with the wind is the grace

of what could have been leaving

ghosts to haunt with agony’s remorse.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

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