Travis Cebula

FREE DAY AT THE HERMITAGE

Andrew Jackson was a kind man
he buried his favorite slave
not twenty feet from where his own
beloved wife rests forever
in a polished stone gazebo

now rain spatters begin to fill
the name in the low unassuming marker
and not fifty yards away a white mother sends
her adopted black son
running to the small cotton field; he plays
at picking bits of white fluffy
souvenirs

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Travis Cebula currently resides with his wife, Shannon, in Colorado—where he is an MFA candidate at Naropa University. He has published poems, photographs, and stories in various print and on-line journals. His first solo collection of poetry and photographs, Some Exits, is due out in early 2009 from Monkey Puzzle Press.

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