High Water Everywhere - Gary Copeland Lilley

\n \nPoetry collection by Gary Copeland Lilley. Lilley's collection addresses flashpoints in African American history including the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and Hurricane Katrina. Second edition with new poems.\n \nEXCERPT: \n \nColonel Waddell on the Morning of November 10, 1898\n \nfrom High Water Everywhere\n \nThey vote Republican black. They walk\n \nOur streets with their heads up, with more freedom\n \nThan a white man, and now we have been made\n \nTo conduct our city's business under\n \nThe rule of carpet-baggers and negroes.\n \nWhite men will suffer eternally\n \nIf we do not honor that it's our blood\n \nThat makes North Carolina sacred ground.\n \nIf we don't act they'll soon have the land\n \nAnd all our grand history that's on it: \n \nThe Confederate graves, all the gray men\n \nFrom all our families, to their proud deaths\n \nGive glory, honor the white way of life.\n \nLet black bodies choke the Cape Fear River.\n