Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with blue-ridge-mountains
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Why Are You Here
The rains have finally left the Blue Ridge. All summer, I’ve been building a remote (understatement) tree house for the Big Cat Kittens and Mama. They will have to find it on their own. Bakers use those big plastic buckets for their icing bakery products. Then, they throw them out.…
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Blue Ridge Baby
Blue Ridge Baby, a novel by Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: Coyote Den
Last night, the three coyotes slept in the coyote den I made. I needed to make the den bigger. I dug a hole in the cedar. Cleaned out the hibiscus. I wore gloves. I did not know about the puppy. They protect the puppy with their coyote lives and they…
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There Are Things Under Rocks, And Our Backs Are Broken
We now live in a small town in the Blue Ridge mountains. As with most of Appalachia, people live in hollows. A hollow is like a hidden furrow on the planet. It would be possible to live in a hollow and never come out. It’s that isolated. There are things…
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pacemakers and arrhythmia
i will never leave appalachia/ i know that/ it just is/ i do not love appalachia/ i do not know how to love a place/ i hold no romance for it to my naked breast/ the beauty of the blue ridge is more ruthless than you can know/ that soft,…
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Ginger’s Pasture
when old ned died, we had to drag the horse’s body with a tractor to a pit i had spent a day digging/ i had loved that horse, and could not shake the feeling that we were hurting him by dragging his dead weight with a rope tied around his…