Neca Stoller

Yuchee Town

beyond the mound
beneath
the red clay

of south field, bone
shards shift
in the wake of earthworms;

a painted pot
fills with the slow seeping
of dawn rain,

and a man steps
from the shaded
oaks, beside

the seed-filled
fruit of wild
scuppernongs

up the field, walking
on a village
of the Yuchee,

ash covered
in the year
of 1833

and the tree
roots close
round the spirit town.


 (Yuchee were members of the Creek Nation)

previously published in Visions International, Spring, 1998. (paper magazine)


 Neca Stoller was born in Savannah, Georgia. She was educated at University of Georgia, graduating with a B. A. Economics, Phi Kappa Phi. She served as Co-chairman of the County Planning Commission. After years of living in a metropolitan area, she and her family moved to a rural area and raised cattle. It was here she began writing poetry. Recently they returned to urban living. Her first book of poetry will be published by DeeMar Communications in March, 1999- "Bound by Red Clay."


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