"Oklahoma Elegies"

This is a book of poems, set in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, that draws on family history and historical chronicles.

The book and its Table of Contents can be seen at Amazon.com here.

But the truth is something happened

I cannot wake to tell though trying to tell it

Writing about it climbing down among

Weathered boards fallen over the well of the past.

The pump gone I peer down the hole

Down into the dark and gleam of stories

They told us, and we didn't know any others.

from "The Photo of Young Wayne by the Pump"