Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology

Contents

CONTENTS Introduction xi C. D. Albin “Four Fine Horses” 1 Walter Bargen “Photogenic” 15 “Wounded God” 16 Brooks Blevins “Jethro and Abner: An Arkansaw Counterculture” 19 James Bogan “River Poetics IV” 30 “Mrs. Clara Franz: Mother Earth’s Daughter” 34 Sara Burge “Sacraments” 39 “Each Black Shell” 40 Michael Burns “Farm Road 93” 42 “On the Fifth Day of the Search” 43 “After October Rain” 44 “Sweet Potatoes” 45 “Going to See the 15th-Century Indian Head Pots at the Hampson Museum, Wilson, Arkansas” 46 vii Marcus Cafagña “Mowing” 48 “The Old House” 49 Katie Estill “The Three Beauties” 51 Charles J. Farmer from Unspoiled Beauty 64 Gary Guinn “Being a Doaks and All” 67 Jim Hamilton “Father’s Day” 71 “Crossing the Old Farm” 73 Donald Harington “Telling Time” 76 William Harrison “Tickets to Nowhere” 88 Andrea Hollander “Finches or Sparrows” 99 “Large Boulder Above Honey River” 100 “November” 102 “Ice Storm” 103 Art Homer “A Discussion in the Woods” 105 Jane Hoogestraat “Listening to Fauré” 119 “Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Play the Ozarks” 120 viii Contents Phillip Howerton “The Family, Circa 1919” 121 “Old Homestead on Federal Land” 123 Dave Malone “Hawksbill Crag” 125 “Blackberry Cobbler” 126 Anthony Priest “Aux Arcs” 127 “Settling Velocity” 128 Roy Reed from Faubus 129 Jan Peterson Roddy “Geography I” 138 “Called Down” 139 “Caves” 139 “Border State” 140 “Silas” 141 “Collie Holler” 142 Pattiann Rogers “Fury and Grace” 143 “The Background Beyond the Background” 145 Marideth Sisco “Butterfield: An Introduction” 147 Bonnie Stepenoff from Big Spring Autumn 151 Ryan Stone “The Hunters” 163 Contents ix Jo Van Arkel “Swimming at Flat Bridge, 1963” 173 James Whitehead “The Opinion of an Interesting Old Man” 183 “Just North of Sikeston” 184 Miller Williams “An Unrhymed Sonnet” 187 “Separatio in Loco” 187 Daniel Woodrell “Black Step” 188 Steve Yates “The Battle of Springfield” 202 Acknowledgments 211 x Contents ...