From Gene’s Notebook

Shadow Walkers, Hunched and Fast.
Mansions, right out of Gone With the Wind, on Missouri bluffs above the brown Mississippi.
Who the hell is in them?
Pretend slaveowners?
Make-a-killing lawyers?
No one is outside; the porches huge, the lawns green and sloped; the trees spreading.
One car with Florida plates. A new second-home summer location?
Decades ago, I’d be interested [...]

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A comment from Stan
I was pleased to see The Brownsville Herald run a story on the labor movement, the actual object of the Labor Day holiday, as opposed to our beloved State Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.’s rather weak statistical analysis of the current labor force in the Sunday Herald. They’ve become such little boosterettes over [...]

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A reminder from Stan
The Writers Forum will meet tomorrow night, August 2, 2008, at 7 pm at the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, 225 East Stenger in San Benito.

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Munseetown
(for Garnet Drown Bertram)
In Lindley Park Cemetery
The tourists are attracted there,
Treading softly, carefully,
Reading what the stones declare:
Beneath this stone are my son’s bones
Drowned in the Yellowstone.
The Twee, the Doon, the Yellowstone,
These deeps that fill the cemetery
Age upon age of runéd bones.
The wash and ruck are silted there,
The Wapahani and [...]

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