Travel tip

Sevierville

Atchley and Parrot and Bird

Clabough and Helton and Kerr

Huskey and Blevins and Huff

Ogle and Reagan and Wear

Blankenship, Burchfield and Nave

Patterson, Hatcher and Teague

Owenby, Loveday and Sharp

Murphy McMahan and McCall

Harding (now spelled Hardin)

Turn up in Denver on signs at the airport

Sharpied on shirt board near baggage claim

On the faculty directory of the University of Nevada

Las Vegas under College of Life Sciences

You’ll spot them scrolling up or crawling

Right to left along the bottom of a screen

Gaffer grip or best boy a perpetrator victim or both

When they’re not affixed to a camo tunic

In Kandahar or embossed on plastic pinned

To the chest of an associate at the Dollar Tree in Wapakoneta

Look for them when you’re reading the liner notes

On the inner sleeve of your dad’s pristine vinyl

Booker T and the MG’s or a June 14 2008

People in the dermatologist’s waiting room

Now and then they’ll turn up in December

At Nobel time but you’re more likely to run

Into one taped below the grimy lobby buzzer

Of a studio apartment in Lincoln Park or fifth

On the waiting list at Applebee’s in King of Prussia

Wednesday evening party of eight including

Wheelchair and booster seat

But next time you’re passing through

Abandon Dolly Parton

Parkway for Court Avenue

Bruce and Church and Cherry and Grace

Gary Wade Avenue and Frog Alley

The colored trace they called it 

Perhaps they do still

Henderson Chapel in the oxbow

Of the Little Pigeon

The old live oak orphanage

Catter corner from Cas Walker’s reborn

As a Department of Social Services

One Stop the Cloth Shop a bistro

Run by a woman from lower Manhattan

Look askance and you might

Catch a glimpse at the periphery

Ogle leaching lead paint

From soft brick

Into a hot July morning

Blalock shouldering gravel

Up a grade on the door

Of a dusty red dump

Harding (now spelled Hardin)

Leaning in relief on sugary dominos

Melting in Henderson Chapel boneyard