Crossing Carolina
A Collection of Poetry and Short Stories
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Mountain Rest, South Carolina
I am from old dusty roads
Where country stores that still have wooden floors
Sell bread and milk and crickets and worms
Where you can listen to Blue Grass music on weekends
Apple orchards dot the skyline
Of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Peach blossoms in the spring tickle our noses
As we anticipate the taste of the fuzzy, burnt-orange jewels
Hot summer days are burned away at the river
Saturday mornings are sacred for hunters
Saturday nights are reserved for fishing
Camping, 'coon hunting and football are a must where I come from
We exhaust ourselves on the 4th of July at Hillbilly Day
Eating barbeque and fried chicken and drinking sweet tea
Playing endless games of softball and
Chasing greased pigs
The hum of old John Deere tractors plowing fields
The faint echoes of cows mooing in pastures
The postmaster knowing everyone's children's names
Ole Charlie slipping kids an extra scoop of hot boiled peanuts
Is what I remember when I close my eyes and
Revisit my childhood days of being reared in the South
I am from Mountain Rest
Where gravel still pops 'neath car tires
Where my sister still pedals her bike
Where I ran barefoot down old dusty roads
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About the Book
This is the author’s debut collection of sentimental poetry and short stories that are written based upon real-life experiences and some fictional situations. These poems and stories address love, friendships, families, comical situations, and the natural world. Pictures (mostly taken by the author, others used with permission) are scenic moments captured in
About the Author
The author was first published in 1989 in Newberry College's Kinickinick, a chapbook published by the college. She has since been published in four anthologies. She is a lifetime member of The International Society of Poets. She began writing poetry while she was a student at Walhalla Middle School in Walhalla, SC and has continued to write through her adult life. When asked about what inspires her writings, Candice replied, "It can be a feeling I've had, an emotion I've experienced, a phrase or a proverb, an idea that pops into my head, something I've witnessed or thought about at school, a scene from a movie, something overheard in a converstation, well, just about anything can inspire me really." The author has two other books to be published, one is Wrappers Wanted, a mathematical tale about how to calculate surface area and the second is another poetry book (untitled). Look for these soon!