A clean page awaiting

for homesteaders Linnie, Allie & Minyard Cornell Who now can read the writing of the plow upon that distant hill? I have seen winter work its will upon that page, and works it still. This is the prairie of the lie, Jim Hill’s ‘Rain every spring, grain where it...
The Original Oscar Larum

The Original Oscar Larum

Terrie Losleben Sato, a great-niece, visited the grave of Pvt. Oscar Larum at the Argonne-Meuse American Cemetery in eastern France during August of 2013. Oscar was killed November 5, 1918, six days before the Armistice was signed on Nov. 11, ending the first World...

Where the road turns

for Tim Pilgrim, who is a real poet — The river road winds like a boy’s path home, a boy rich in imagination who finds in every stone some brave’s thumbprint, in every bush the trapped curves of a Longhorn steer. I have been captive to that desire, known the...