Home and Other Places

by Britton, Sherrie; Callies, Renee; Campbell, Pen; Holt, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780932826732
• ISBN10: 0932826733
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose

Table of Contents

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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