{"id":13773,"date":"2020-12-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/two-poems-by-raye-hendrix\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:31:35","slug":"two-poems-by-raye-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/two-poems-by-raye-hendrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 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(2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In memory of Pat Sullivan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\">An autumn sun, expected, rises;<br>steals darkness from between the stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>to illuminate the streets and avenues\u2014<br>College and Magnolia brilliant white<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>with billowing paper, a southern substitute<br>for snow: live oaks cloaked from trunk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>to acorn, ivory drifts in dewfrost catching<br>light like pearls on Samford Lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>This softness that follows the clamor<br>of Saturday&#8217;s spectacle, the neon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>sound so quiet now the city<br>seems to be holding its breath,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>silent streets clinging to the ghost<br>of last night&#8217;s gathering\u2014the true<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>and fearless faithful singing<br><em>Glory, Glory; Give &#8217;em Hell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>at the last game of the year. Soon,<br>city crews will come to clear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>the tissue from the branches,<br>untangle celebration from the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>In the cool of Sunday morning<br>the rolls of streamer-snow will feather<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>into subtler pieces, flutter down<br>Auburn&#8217;s drowsy avenues, then scatter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>skyward on the wind rise up as if<br>triumphant\u2014as if dancing, joyful, free:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0px\"><br>a white-winged flock of paper angels,<br>now having won, returning home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>Friday Night Lights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Day disappears behind the ridge.<br>The golden hour is full of smoke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>from tailgates, stolen cigarettes, fathers<br>lighting charcoal grills in the parking lot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>behind the school. Their sons-long<br>boys with longer shadows-march<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>from locker room to field,<br>cleats crunching the gravel path<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>like discordant drums of war, child<br>soldiers swallowed by shoulder pads,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>chewing mouthguards like tobacco,<br>slurring words they&#8217;re too young to use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>at cheerleaders too young to know why<br>it makes them tug at the hems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>of their skirts, use their pom-poms<br>to shield their adolescent thighs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>They are learning to be women<br>from the boys who are learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>to be men by learning how to take a hit<br>or hit harder than their fathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>The whistle blows; bodies collide.<br>The whole town begins to scream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Raye Hendrix<\/strong> is a poet from Alabama. She earned her BA and MA from Auburn University and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Raye is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature (2019), the Patricia Aakhus Award given by <em>Southern Indiana Review<\/em> (2018), and the New Writers Project Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Poetry, selected by Robyn Schiff (2019). In 2018, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize, the Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing, and <em>Tinderbox Poetry Journal<\/em>\u2019s Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. She has also received honorable mentions for poetry from AWP\u2019s Intro Journals Project (2015) and <em>Southern Humanities Review<\/em>\u2019s Witness Poetry Prize honoring Jake Adam York (2014). Raye&#8217;s work has been featured on <em>Poetry Daily<\/em> and has appeared in or is forthcoming from <em>32 Poems<\/em>, <em>Southern Indiana Review<\/em>, <em>Shenandoah<\/em>, <em>Cimarron Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry Northwest<\/em>, <em>Zone 3<\/em>, and elsewhere. Raye is a PhD fellow at the University of Oregon studying Poetics and Crip Theory with a Deaf Studies focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">&lt;&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/parable-by-j-bruce-fuller\/\">Back<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/concussion-by-zachary-hughes\/\">Next<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raye Hendrix __________ At Toomer&#8217;s Corner, the Morning After the Iron Bowl (2019) In memory of Pat Sullivan An autumn sun, expected, rises;steals darkness from between the stars to illuminate the streets and avenues\u2014College and Magnolia brilliant white with billowing paper, a southern substitutefor snow: live oaks cloaked from trunk to acorn, ivory drifts in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[75,108,18],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-football-20-boudin","tag-boudin","tag-football","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21135,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions\/21135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}