Antebellum House
You stand proud
Overlooking an emerald hill
Sloping down on a turquoise river
In this front your windows shine
Showing a beauty
Your classical pillars
Give an illusion of
A fine education
Clear thinking
But your back
Around the front there is another
Sight
Your fields stretch on
Tobacco or cotton
Beautiful
Until we see the little huts
Clustered together by the fields
Smaller than the stables for your
Horses
What were they for?
And you do not like to answer
This poem is about:
My country