from Gene’s Notebook

…love of pre-dawn, started when my father would tickle my heels to awaken me before we’d leave for chicken buying in steamy Miami, a Miami that was surrounded by mon and pop chicken farms …I know, it’s impossible to imagine swamps, fruit trees and chickens in its 2008 freeway culture of three million [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Munseetown
Bag ladies are this season wearing
field-jackets gleaned from K-MART shoppers
and KEDS cast off by charioteers
on skateboards fleeing from the cops;
hooded and rope-cinched at their waists
(doomed matched-pairs shuffling westward),
vespers et matins in their quest
they toss and comb the city’s trash,
each empty can discovered, cash.
Sometimes drunk they will confess it,
and sometimes [...]

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A note from Virginia Gause
The Texas Film Commission – Office of the Governor, is looking for photographs of Texas towns circa 1945-1960. A feature film project has contacted our office looking for reference photographs of Texas during the 1950’s oil boom, so we are putting together a research package for them in hopes they will [...]

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