Blacktop Fields

Texas, sometimes those back roads aren’t covered with trees and wild flowers. Nor the grassy hillsides rolling and full of natures beasts frolicking in its shelter. Sometimes the back roads are neighborhoods, blacktop fields riddled with thick air. But the skies...

Chrysanthemum

She knew every responsive reading by memory, every hymn, once I asked her if she knew his sermons by memory, she said he’d never given the same sermon twice. I was amazed that she knew all these things, it would be a game for me. She would pull the old hymn book from...