Dioramas is from the memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young, published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining valley, and Dioramas tells of the strange underground exhibit, a coal mine with mannequins.

In the poem RECOLLECTION, the poet Catherine Young both remembers and collects inside a small-town antique store. The poem is from the ecopoetry collection Geosmin published by Water’s Edge Press.

With summer come the memories of other summers, layered on, including what is here and what is now gone. BECAUSE OF THE SUN by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, is from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.

Prairie restoration, the Grim Reaper, mentors, and a rusty scythe all compound the images in this poem by Tom Boswell MEDITATION WHILE CUTTING BUCKWHEAT from the poetry collection Heart on a String.

Sometimes with the memories of lost objects if we pay attention – come the best insights – and the best stories. RESTORATION by Catherine Young is from the ecopoetry collection Geosmin published by Water’s Edge Press.

Sometimes it’s difficult to answer a question about farming. IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION by Catherine Young was published in the journal Farmerish in 2020

East Mountain is from the memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young, published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining Valley, and East Mountain tells of the relationship between the narrator and her firefighter father in the early 1960s.

In the poem COUNTRY COMMUTE the journey across the rural landscape to the office on a June day is a hard transition. COUNTRY COMMUTE by Tom Boswell is published in his collection Heart on a String.

The poem TWO GIRLS ON A HAYRACK captures a childhood moment, a glorious memory of high summer on a farm. The poem is by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.