Michael Chitwood

mchitwoodMichael Chitwood was born and raised in the foothills of the VA Blue Ridge Mountains but now works as a freelance writer and college lecturer in Chapel Hill, N.C. His many books of poetry include Salt Works, WhetThe Weave Room and Gospel Road Going, which received the 2003 Roanoke-Chowan Award. His poems can be found in Georgia Review, Poetry and many other venues.

Dominion

We called them The Bible Couple because they had one, a spiffy leather-bound number with its own latch that snapped front cover to back as though the gospel were a snake that had to be secure din its carrying box. … Continue reading