Texas Lists: The B List

 Jim LaVilla-Havelin

May 4, 2025

Begin with 

Big Bend and

             Bluebonnets and

                 Barbecue and

Barb wire

Bastrop, Brownsville, Bandera, and

Bryan, Burnett, Beeville, Bigfoot (cities and towns)

Balmorhea, Blue Hole (springs)

Brackenridge Park

Big Thicket

Bentsen, Beto, lyndon Baines Johnson, and

kay Bailey Hutchison, Bonilla (pols)

Bijou (indie and foreign film cinema in SA, closed now)

Burlingame, Bonazzi, Brown, Browne, and

Boldt, Billings, Blanda, Bigelow, and  

Birkelbach, Burroughs, Bradley, and

Berecka, Barker (poets)

Blanton, Bayou Bend (museums)

Beaumont, Brenham, Boerne, Belton, and

         Burleson, Ballinger, Brackettville (more towns and cities)

Big D, Big Red, Big Thicket, Big Bend (actually, anything

with Big in its name)

Bagwell, Biggio, Bregman, Berkman, and

Bell, Berry, Bogar, Bruntlett, Backe (Astros Killer Bs)

Breakfast Tacos, Big Red, Brisket, Banana Pudding, 

Barbacoa, Barbecue (I used to think,

              when I first moved here, that 

    the last two were the same,

              just different languages -

but no.

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the author of six books of poetry. His most recent, Tales from the Breakaway Republic, a chapbook, was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, in May 2022. LaVilla-Havelin is the Coordinator for National Poetry Month in San Antonio.