Where He's From
Where He’s From Even then it mattered much to him, how he was born in South Carolina, raised in North. No one asked, or cared, but he split hairs on his right to the Palmetto sticker stuck on his high school truck, felt his edges peeling up round Tarheel games and low-country broils both, those people who could answer the question in a clean cut, who didn’t need to pick. How could he have known it was the tension to which his life would persistently adhere? Wherever he is and just past the reach of his high beams, his soul hums in the inter- state, both there and here.