Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers Forum

Unwelcoming Prudence I used to walk into yards: On treed bluffs above the Mississippi in Missouri, On grassy prairies above the Mississippi in Illinois, In soaked rice fields, levee-protected, near the Mississippi in Arkansas, On beet-planted plains bordering the Red in North Dakota. “Some water, please?” “Sure, help yourself.” Not as certain, not as confident […]