Vacancies for Belief

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director for West Virginia. APPALRED worked to secure the rights of poor people, miners, welfare recipients and other citizens. From 1975 until he retired in 1998, he was the executive director of APPALRED in West Virginia. Berea College honored Milton Ogle with the Berea College Service Award in 1995. One other thing, on March 10, Representative Marie Lakes Rader, from McKee, adjourned the Kentucky House of Representatives in Milton's honor. Representative Rader had been a Berea College student worker at the Council of the Southern Mountains when Milton worked there. Ogle was married to the former Mary Garrett, who survives, and they had three children—Thomas E., Charles Daniel (deceased), and Angela. The funeral was at the Forrest Burdette United Methodist Church, Hurricane, West Virginia. —Loyal Jones Vacancies for Belief Let there be trees. Enormous trees on river banks, that speak with white noise of insects and owls, hurling their tenor at the moon floating out of a silo, held high by willows building vacancies that rock the orb weaver and her ball of children who will spill like good omen over uncircumcised hearts and skin of ripe pears, in the pause of light. I twirl jasmine in my fingers Hold hummingbirds in my hands. Undress Your mantis body bound by human husk— While crayfish shift in fined silt And ochelli blink this poem at you. *ochelli: the eyes in a peacock's tail. —Deborah Byrne 6 ...