Monastery at Large

Category: Blue Ridge Mountains

  • Cold, Cold Mountain

    Dawn at Cold Mountain, North Carolina

    The bitch threw momma off the mountain.

    She said it was an accident at the time.

    Momma was an angry old monster —

    ‘Twas more “reap what you sow” than a crime.

    As momma went tumbling down the hillside,

    The bitch rubbed her hands with glee.

    Now momma haunts the bitch like a devil,

    And she don’t give a damn about me.

  • A Man of No Land

    Cades Cove, Tennessee

    I’m like a tree after its leaves have fallen:

    Without immediate identity;

    Nothing attached to me.

    In the mist I stand quietly,

    My roots sunk deep in substance no one sees.

    Nothing will sway me.

  • The Hazy Hills of Carolina

    Summer haze in the Blue Ridge Mountains – North Carolina