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Sweeping out James Still's Log Home near Hindman, Kentucky Libby Falk Jones (bio) Beyond the well, now boarded up, I climbthe mossy steps into the darkened house,home of mice, dry leaves, dust. Silencesits. In the dim kitchen I grab the broom,clear a corner near the rusting stove,with an extra swipe boost crumbling leavesonto the grass where Naked Ladies bloom.There's spirit in a sweep—a clean sweep—on a bright afternoon by Wolfpen Creek,that river of earth. So Jim must have sweptand slept, fried food and read, penned his poemsand stories, moseyed down to the country storeto sit a spell. At his hearth, among these hillshe could not leave, can I sweep in his heart? [End Page 64] Libby Falk Jones Libby Falk Jones is Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities and Professor of English at Berea College. Her chapbook of poems, Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue, was published in April by Finishing Line Press. Copyright © 2010 Berea College
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