Maggie Glover, "In West Virginia"
Published on September 13, 2010
Almost heaven? Almost.
Each morning was a fresh, blue breakdown.
I perfected my skills of isolation among those hills,
the splash back of creeks and muddied snow drifts.
I had enough money, but not enough money...
Do read the rest, from San Francisco-late-of-Appalachia poet Maggie Glover.