From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...brush long ago. Here, there is no cankered plum or split persimmon, sap or juice to bead, mimeograph bright, on the grass's nibs, and the grass does not whorl in...
Off-Season
...for fall. We settled in for the long freeze. You ate ridicule and haste. We never were the same, until spring when the fields reclaimed us as their own and...
Old Elementary
...hissing radiators, oil-polished wood floors, crayonwax, pencil shavings, the chronic dust of lead, chalk, faint fear—and the long hallways not hard for me to imagine empty, dimly lit, where I...
Fort Scott newspapers
...and killed him while his assailant was pummeling him." "Let Us Consider" "Friday will long remain a memorable day in the history of Fort Scott. It was at once the...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...find relief from the din and confusion of the city, during the long, hot summer. When the gates of the park are opened wide for the thousands of visitors they...
Julius Hartman
..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...foot on is no longer there and she is being shoved downstream and she does not panic because she is a good swimmer and has passed all of her Red...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
Race
...on behalf of the race. The poet imagines Great-Uncle Paul in cool, sagey groves counting rings in redwood trunks, imagines pencil markings in a ledger book, classifications, imagines a sidelong...