Contents
What Happens When We Leave
Nights and Days
She Reflects upon a Sadness
Circus
A Bottomlands Farmer Deals with the Arkansas Power and Light Transmission Towers Set in His Field
Radio
Eight Years a Ghost
The Time of Their Lives
The Crib at Buffalo Antiques
Spinsters
The Duplex
A Southerner in Kansas Recalls Trees
Just off the Highway
A Farmer Dies
Fear
Air Midwest Lands on Ice at Kansas City International
Needing Noise
She Feels out of Place in Burl’s Auto Service
The Young Dressmaker, Best in Emerson County
A Bottomlands Farmer’s Widow Remarries and Speaks of the Killing
Dreaming the Kin
After Vietnam/Standing at a Window at Gate 2
Many Mansions
After a Neighbor’s House Was Broken Into
Admission
Driving a Louisiana Highway, Past a Town with a Ruined Depot, She Remembers the Negro Albino in Her Hometown
A Picture
In Ray’s Cafe
What Part of Town Was That In?
My Mother’s Dead Dresses
Vast
How It Sometimes Happens to a Man That a Noble Heart and Purpose Come to Dwell within Him
Singer at the Farmers’ Market
Depot
A Story to Tell
She Ponders the Doctor’s Diagnosis
Everything You Wanted
Address
A Nice Town
I Describe to My Furniture a House I May Buy
A Bottomlands Farmer’s Wife Speaks after Attempting Suicide
The Road
Driving Alone
For All They Know
A Beginning
Buzzards near Osawatomie
At Dark
Seeing Her
War Bride 1943
Baseball in America
The Suit
I Drive into a Town for the First Time
How Life Sometimes Is Like Kansas
Burying My Father
Long Lives
A Great Plains Farmer Beseeches the Lord for Rain