You carry the pearls of war within you, bombs swallowed whole and saved for later. Give them to your children. Give them to your love. From: Dreams From The Malaria Pills (Barefoot) These are poems out of the Iraq War. Many are located by title or sub-heading at precise places or moments on a battlefield whose contours are exactly those where civilians try to live their non-combatant lives: a city ring-road or central square, a town’s back-streets, a child’s bedroom, a riverbank.
May 8, 1868: According to The East Tennessee Union Flag, âThe Ministerial Association of the Methodist E. Church for the Jonesboro District will organize in the town of Jonesboroâ on Thursday the 21st of May at 11 oâclock, A.M., and will be protracted over the following Sunday. Ministers and laymen, and the public generally, are cordially invited to attend.â
The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way on the masthead. In the pages of the newspaper, however, it was spelled that way, as well as Jonesboro and Jonesboroâ, as above.
May 8, 1890: The Comet reported, âJohnson City is to have an ice factory that will make 30 tons of ice daily and it is to be built at once. W.J. Graham left Monday for Asheville to see an agent about the machinery. It wilt (sic) probably be located in the Proctor Land Companyâs addition. This is an enterprise that the city has been ready to support for more than a year