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Happy Birthday, Betty Adcock! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Betty Adcock! Poet · Teacher · Editor · born 16 September 1938 Today we celebrate the birthday of Betty Adcock — one of the finest poets of the American South. Here is her haunting poem, “Louisiana Line,” a meditation on place, memory, and the way history keeps speaking through the things we build and leave behind. The poem moves with the quiet precision that characterizes Adcock's best work — cotton gins and icehouses, porch swings and lopped gates, and a wind that lifts "the thin flags of the town." Adcock was born on this day in 1938 in San Augustine, Texas, and has lived much of her life in North Carolina. She published six collections of poetry, including Walking Out , Beholdings , and Rough Fugue , and recei...

A Surprise in the Peninsula by Fleur Adcock | Poems Rethabile Likes A Surprise in the Peninsula by Fleur Adcock When I came in that night I found the skin of a dog stretched flat and nailed upon my wall between the two windows. It seemed freshly killed – there was blood at the edges. Not my dog: I have never owned one, I rather dislike them. (Perhaps whoever did it knew that.) It was a light brown dog, with smooth hair; no head, but the tail still remained. On the flat surface of the pelt was branded the outline of the peninsula, singed in thick black strokes into the fur: a coarse map. The position ...