The father pulls the six-paneled heart pine door / open, leading her out by the arm, first lesson. / They wind behind the house, past the prayer trees.
Beyond the woods, back back of the shed, / into the hush hush air / where prayer and camp meeting / rose like jasmine vine, / back in the black code days.
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