Charleston Currents

MYSTERY PHOTO: Pair of crosses

Since we appear to be on a church theme today, here’s something new to the area skyline, but what is it? For a bonus, why is it new? (This may be kind of tough for people who live outside of the Lowcountry.) Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Aug. 5 mystery, “Rusty gate,” showed the gate to the Avian Conservation Center at The Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw along U.S. Highway 17.

PALMETTO POEM: Three by Kimberly Simms

Brother’s Mess of Crosses

Converted at 16, when the dummy train
derailed to tip across his pregnant wife.
A holy roller, a Carolina spinner,
a brush arbor caller, an off-key gospel singer.

He took scarlet paint to moonshine jars, boulders,
pine trees, fences, and the neighbor’s pig.
His front plot, he planted a mess of crosses
and built his own monolith with river rocks.

He didn’t pay no mind to section leaders,
howled his only boss was the man in heaven.
He sent 10,000 message bottles down the Reedy
River, dreamed of taking Jesus to Mars and Jupiter.