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errol miller




Sedgefield



This Louisiana house
packed with mental snapshots
a soft mellow breeze blowing in from ocean
ancestral portraits of time and place
there is a period chimney piece
and a nightingale, orderly rows of cornstalk
a tiger in the garden and a map
of Shalimar and famous Hollywood palaces
a plate of the Ouachita River's silt
and a big hall full of beige fraying paper
tucked away far form Paris it is
a French-speaking reservoir of reserve
Edwardian visitors come of course to stare
a Jesuit priest guards entranceway
and one white candle burns into night
illuminating the divine madness just below
the Mason-Dixon line, old boots and leggings
and a small coterie of scrapbook hurting
thin erratic tenants searching for peace
pecan tress and a firefly for direction
glamorous Georgian-style life
broken down into lacquered parts and pieces
generation after lost generation
resting comfortably, we presume
in a raised cottage in New Orleans.



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