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, 1898n nfrom High Water Everywheren nThey vote Republican black.

They walkn nOur streets with their heads up, with more freedomn nThan a white man, and now we have been maden nTo conduct our city's business undern nThe rule of carpet-baggers and negroes.n nWhite men will suffer eternallyn nIf we do not honor that it's our bloodn nThat makes North Carolina sacred ground.n nIf we don't act they'll soon have the landn nAnd all our grand history that's on it: n nThe Confederate graves, all the gray menn nFrom all our families, to their proud deathsn nGive glory, honor the white way of life.n nLet black bodies choke the Cape Fear River.n