Great Regulars: The following poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer

is the second in a series of related poems called Southern Fictions. Despite all the protective barriers we put up between us and the world, there's always a man with a wink that can rip right through. Byer has served as North Carolina's Poet Laureate.

I still can't get it right

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 374

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