{"id":3463,"date":"2015-02-10T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:52:12","slug":"the-best-tlacoyos-in-chickasawhatchee-a-poem-by-r-w-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-best-tlacoyos-in-chickasawhatchee-a-poem-by-r-w-haynes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Tlacoyos in Chickasawhatchee. A Poem by R.W. Haynes"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nBack before he was extinct, I mean, of course,
\nThe Great Common-Sense Woodpecker, bless his heart,
\nYou could sit here on the porch, sober as a judge,
\nAnd watch pterodactyls chasing the bugs
\nBack and forth around the glowing moon.
\n 
\nBack then, that is, before it all went to hell,
\nThat boy from Bacon County, what was his name?
\nHis daddy drove a log truck, it finally caught fire
\nAnd burned down the Primitive Baptist Church,
\nBut the pastor\u2019s German Shepherd barked in time,
\nAnd they saved the parsonage. I\u2019ll remember his name,
\nThe boy\u2019s, not the German Shepherd\u2019s, here in a little,
\nBut anyhow, he played the mandolin, not the dog,
\nOf course, but the kid from Bacon, pretty well,
\nAnd he\u2019d park his butt on the steps and play old songs,
\n\u201cPretty Polly,\u201d \u201cDarlin\u2019 Corey,\u201d and \u201cWatch Out, Young Ladies,\u201d
\nAnd Grandmama, who did watch out pretty well
\nWhen she was young, according to her, anyhow,
\nWould tap her foot as if arthritis was a song.
\n 
\nAnd up in the sky, the constellations danced,
\nAnd passenger pigeons flowed across forever,
\nAnd old songs fused together like aqueducts,
\nWashing all the grief away that any of us ever had.<\/strong>
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\nR. W. Haynes has taught literature at Texas A&M International University since 1992. His recent interests include the early British sonnet, and he is completing a second book on the Texas playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote (1916-2009). In his poetry, Haynes seeks to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without sounding any more dissonant notes than he has to. In fiction, he works toward grasping that part of the past which made its mark on his generation. He enjoys teaching drama, especially the Greeks, Ibsen, and Shakespeare, and he devoutly hopes for a stunning literary Renaissance in South Texas.<\/strong>
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    Back before he was extinct, I mean, of course, The Great Common-Sense Woodpecker, bless his heart, You could sit here on the porch, sober as a judge, And watch pterodactyls chasing the bugs Back and forth around the glowing moon.   Back then, that is, before it all went to hell, That boy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,226],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}