To Leave My Heart at Catlettsburg

by Clark, Billy C.

• ISBN13: 9780945084754
• ISBN10: 0945084757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation

Table of Contents

Two Boys' Way	15	(1)
To Ruth	16	(1)
Spiders' Way	16	(1)
Elegy in a Mountain Graveyard	17	(1)
To a Scarecrow	17	(1)
Night of the Singing Hounds	18	(1)
Creeping from Winter	18	(1)
Heritage	19	(1)
Something There is About a Beech	19	(1)
Where Once a Cabin Stood	20	(1)
On Rachel's Death	21	(1)
Where Two Rivers Meet	22	(1)
Night Birds	22	(1)
Showboat	23	(1)
Hound, Horn and Popping Wood	24	(1)
First Rollers	24	(1)
Riversong	25	(1)
Epitaph	26	(1)
After Cherry Picking	26	(1)
The Hawk	27	(1)
Ballad of Emmalee	28	(1)
Run Me A River	28	(1)
To Mom and Dad upon Their Courtship	29	(1)
Sourwood Hollow	29	(2)
Betwixt and Between	31	(1)
Ode To A Whippoorwill	32	(1)
The Coming of Rain	32	(1)
A Favorite Place	33	(1)
The Journey To	33	(1)
Death of a Mountain Fiddler	34	(1)
Heritage of Corn	34	(1)
Ritual Dance	35	(1)
The West Virginia Point (1)	35	(1)
The West Virginia Point (2)	36	(1)
The West Virginia Point (3)	36	(1)
The West Virginia Point (4)	37	(1)
Don't Grieve for Me	37	(1)
My Vigil Keep	38	(1)
Tale of a Shantyboat Man	38	(1)
The Death of Aunt Lottie	39	(5)
Hill Scenes	44	(1)
The Why and Where of Chicory	44	(1)
Birthright	45	(1)
Periwinkle	45	(1)
The Virgin White Oak	46	(1)
Dreamcatch	46	(1)
Nightshadows	47	(1)
Tree Horse	47	(1)
Passing Through	48	(1)
The Mussel Bed	48	(1)
Two Rivers Wide	49	(1)
To Kill a Weed	49	(1)
Forever Autumn	50	(1)
Skating on Catlettscreek	50	(1)
The Ballad of Ada Lee	51	(1)
Where the Girls Were	52	(1)
Even the Heavens Weep	53	(1)
On the Naming of the Billy C. Clark Bridge at Catlettsburg, Kentucky	53	(1)
To Watch a Pond	54	(1)
If I Should Go Before	55	(1)
Where Once a Spring	56	(1)
The Breaking of Drought	56	(1)
How Shall I Greet You	57	(1)
Winter Thoughts	57	(1)
Once a River	58	(1)
A Christmas Story	58	(1)
The Big Sandy	59	(1)
Retold Memories	59	(1)
Decoration Day	60	(1)
How Much You Mean to Me	60	(1)
To Leave My Heart at Catlettsburg	61	(1)
Queen Anne's Lace	61	(1)
On the Reading of My Book Dedicated to My Father	62	(1)
Winterdread	62	(1)
Winterbirds	63	(1)
On Building a Dream	63	(1)
An Appalachian Once	64	(1)
The Walkingstick	64	(1)
Late Autumn	65	(1)
Dream Search	65	(1)
Death of a Miner	66	(1)
To Quote a Poem	66	(1)
Land of Silent Sleep	67	(1)
Just Wanted To	67	(1)
Awaiting a Promise Given	68	(1)
Catlettsburg	68	(1)
To Sprout Again	69	(1)
To Run a Trotline	69	(1)
Night Moth	69	(1)
The Ballad of Grandpa Clark	70	(1)
Mountain Love	70	(1)
Strip Mining	71	(1)
The Gift of Catlettscreek	72	(1)
Riverplay	72	(1)
Snowflakes	73	(1)
Return of the Snowbirds	73	(1)
The Great Horned Owl	74	(1)
Nightriver	74	(1)
Legend of the Writing Spider	75	(1)
A Note on Feeding Winter Birds	76	(1)
How the Recall Goes	76	(1)
Decoration Day on the River	77	(1)
Zacchaeus	77	(1)
The Leaning Tower	78	(1)
I Will Not Grieve Again	79	(1)
I Stayed to Watch a Water Spider Once	79	(1)
The Gypsies' Curse	80