Momma Kept A Garden, Which

It Is A Common Condition Of Being Poor...you Are Always Afraid That The Good Things In Your Life Are Temporary, That Someone Can Take Them Away, Because You Have No Power Beyond Your Own Brute Strength To Stop Them.

It Wasn't That I Had Gotten It Right . . . But That I Had Gotten True.

It Is Easy To Be Liked When The World Has No Jagged Edges, When Life Is Electric Blankets And Peach Ice Cream. But To Be Beloved, A Man Needs A Dragon.

It Was A Good Moment, The Kind You Would Like To Press Between The Pages Of A Book, Or Hide In Your Sock Drawer, So You Could Touch It Again.

These Were People... Who Built Redwood Decks On Their Mobile Homes And Have No Idea That Smart-aleck Yankees Think That Is Somehow Funny. People Of The Pines. My People.