Dispossession near Nacogdoches

Chip Dameron

January 4, 2026

East Texas was home

to the Caddo long before

Spaniards, Anglos came

they built beehive homes

with switchgrass thatching, good for

winters and summers

their burial mounds

are far from Oklahoma

where elders now live

Chip Dameron has been publishing poems since 1975. His latest book, As the River Tumbles On, is forthcoming from Lamar University Literary Press.