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Old Granny Teaches Magic

A pair of poems from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas

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A North Carolina poet remembers a long-ago night of young love, interrupted by some ominous figures.

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We were taught the South’s greatest music sprung up in specific places, like the Mississippi Delta or New Orleans or Appalachia. Our teachers didn’t dig deep enough.

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