Introduction: Confessions of a Small Town Writer | |
Turning 50 | p. 1 |
Insecurities of a Product of the Manufactured World | p. 2 |
The Writer's Tools | p. 4 |
Two Hawks | p. 5 |
A Tree Story | p. 6 |
Pine Trees | p. 7 |
Sarett Nature Center, New Year's Day '98 | p. 8 |
Hickory Creek Swamp | p. 9 |
My Own World | p. 10 |
Weeds | p. 12 |
Pickles | p. 14 |
Talking Hands | p. 15 |
Just Like New | p. 17 |
The High Seat | p. 18 |
The Simpler Times | p. 19 |
My Summer Friends | p. 21 |
Packing Isn't the Hardest Part of Moving | p. 22 |
In the Heat of the Summer | p. 24 |
Home | p. 27 |
It's what I call my "Earth Mother" phase | p. 29 |
Making rhubarb pie with a thirteen-year-old | p. 31 |
My Mom | p. 33 |
A Winter of Sorrow | p. 34 |
Gardening Lessons | p. 35 |
The Herb Cottage | p. 36 |
Going to My Aunt's House | p. 38 |
Small Town Life | p. 39 |
Richland, a Small Boring Town | p. 40 |
Langley Covered Bridge: A Michigan Milestone | p. 41 |
Fishing Off the Pier | p. 43 |
Noon Whistle | p. 44 |
Jovon | p. 46 |
Monte | p. 48 |
What taking my son to the army taught me about claustrophobia | p. 50 |
A Father's Expression of Love | p. 52 |
"Team!" | p. 55 |
Visiting Hour | p. 56 |
My Mother's Cups | p. 58 |
Grandma's | p. 59 |
Election Day | p. 60 |
A Few Good Women | p. 64 |
American Male Swings | p. 65 |
My Backyard | p. 66 |
My Bedroom | p. 67 |
The Park | p. 68 |
Up North | p. 69 |
Planting and Celebrating | p. 70 |
Venetian Festival | p. 72 |
Silver Beach | p. 73 |
Taking Back the Past | p. 74 |
Silver Beach | p. 76 |
Valentine's Day Dance | p. 79 |
Marching Music, a sestina | p. 81 |
How to March | p. 83 |
Purity Set to Music | p. 84 |
Brown (inspired by The Wallflowers' "One Headlight") | p. 86 |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, a sestina | p. 87 |
Dancin' Home in the '60s | p. 89 |
What The Storms Left Behind | p. 91 |
The Last Bonfire | p. 94 |
The Red Brick Road | p. 98 |
Hot, Humid Halls | p. 100 |
One Violet Spring | p. 101 |
No Song to Sing | p. 105 |
Milton Street | p. 106 |
The Clouds | p. 108 |
Where Am I From? | p. 109 |
A Soul's Images | p. 110 |
Horse Trained | p. 112 |
Paint Horses | p. 115 |
cows outside my window | p. 116 |
Casino | p. 117 |
Ode to Mrs. Weatherbee's Automatic Sprinklers | p. 118 |
Coming Home to an Empty House | p. 120 |
Headquarters, Where Your Heart Is (For my brother, Bill) | p. 121 |
No Mountain | p. 122 |
once in Canton | p. 123 |
Depression | p. 125 |
kite season | p. 126 |
October | p. 127 |
Fun on the Nineteenth Hole | p. 128 |
The Linebacker Blitz | p. 129 |
Metamorphosis of a Swimmer | p. 131 |
Brown Fence Ballpark | p. 133 |
It Came From Right Field ... And It Was Naked | p. 135 |
The Box | p. 137 |
My First Flight | p. 138 |
Separating Seeds and Guts | p. 139 |
How I Got My Broken Arm | p. 141 |
A Structure of the Heart | p. 142 |
Tiny-Tot-Tumbling Class | p. 144 |
Rockyette | p. 145 |
The Teacher and the Student | p. 146 |
Elders | p. 147 |
Constantine | p. 149 |
Uptown Girl | p. 153 |
Summer Memories | p. 155 |
Ode to My Place | p. 156 |
Allegan County Fair | p. 157 |
Dear Love | p. 158 |
How to Ease Your Mind | p. 160 |
Outlined by Rain | p. 161 |
My Town, Not Yours | p. 163 |
Grand Mere Inn | p. 165 |
Contributors' Notes | p. 171 |
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