caroline street – sunrise in a small city

drylands in rainfall

all who wish walk here
listen and say
arms lock sweat lift
path unseen waiting earth
touch stones smell tubers watch burrows and webs
hail paths crossing
continuing together

homes at sunrise — (in 1967 bonnie ellis, shirley pryor, and lousie alston helped establish the lafayette-douglass food buying club)

being a carpenter

as if he were addressing thousands
of professed believers
he spoke with ardor and enthusiasm

first baptist at sunrise — (the first baptist church, established in old town in 1836 by moses clayton, erected its own building in 1880 on caroline street)