The first collected writings of Patricia Ann West take us on an ancestral journey to corners of the American South with softly whispered secrets, memories, history, and stories that have been carefully preserved--- told in family cemeteries, along creeks and rivers, down roads, across bridges, and on urban streets between Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA. You, the reader, will journey with the author's Gullah-Geechee ancestors, neighbors, and church family through slavery and reconstruction, segregation, the Great Migration, civil rights, desegregation, and contemporary challenges and victories. Still Water Words: Poems and Stories from Ancestral Places goes deep to touch you in a way that will leave you in tears, laughter, and longing for more! Finally, this collection stakes the claim that literary gold exists in Gullah Geechee, Southern, and African diasporic places! Patricia Ann West will take you there!