{"id":13628,"date":"2017-04-05T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2017-04-05T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:31:38","slug":"1941-the-drawings-of-bill-traylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13628","title":{"rendered":"1941: The Drawings of Bill Traylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At eighty-eight, he sits<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>on Montgomery sidewalk,<br \/>\na cola sign for his easel.<br \/>\nHe goes back to the hot dry smells of bees<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>and fattening bolls, his mother\u2019s <\/p>\n<p>tar-bottomed sack, cotton-worms<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>he pinched, the green<br \/>\nsapling handle of his boy-sized hoe.<br \/>\nHe sleeps in the Ross-Clayton<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>Funeral Home. A man <\/p>\n<p>pays a nickel a picture, asks<br \/>\nhow he learned to draw.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>Bill says<br \/>\n<em>it just comes to me. <\/em><br \/>\nOn paper scraps and box tops, <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>he draws giant dogs,<br \/>\nwisdom-birds, men with canes, sea cows,<br \/>\nand airplanes, and amputees.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>At eighty-two, he left the plantation,<br \/>\nworked in a shoe factory, <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>swept the trimmings that fell<br \/>\nunder the tongue cutter and eyehole punch.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>He sits on Monroe Street, ties<br \/>\na turpentine string around his bad knee,<br \/>\neats fruit-stand cull, <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>windfall apple,<br \/>\nweeping peach. On shirt cardboard,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>he draws<br \/>\na blacksmith\u2019s tongs, and green leopards,<br \/>\nand dancers circled for ring shouts, calling <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>kind spirits<br \/>\nas they stamp the earth.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13494\">William Woolfitt<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At eighty-eight, he sits _______on Montgomery sidewalk, a cola sign for his easel. He goes back to the hot dry smells of bees _______and fattening bolls, his mother\u2019s tar-bottomed sack, cotton-worms _______he pinched, the green sapling handle of his boy-sized hoe. He sleeps in the Ross-Clayton _______Funeral Home. A man pays a nickel a picture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3xO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13725,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}