Tag: Kansas

                  KANSAS
Kansas. White clouds scud across the blue sky. Weeds quiver under a relentless sun. Black Angus cows stand knee deep in pond water as a Gator driven by a teenager speeds by and the blue pick-up in the driveway needs gas and Casey’s is open eighteen hours a day.  
Kansas. Where the blue bowl sky stretches forever. Do folks really live in Tonganoxie? Topawingo? Baxter Springs?  Chalk Corner? 
Kansas. Do the red brick houses with white wood shutters in Baxter Springs cost less than those in Anderson Acres with aluminum shutters? Do oleanders grow along the sidewalk? Will the teenager from the new housing development mow the yard every other week or will American Lawns and their electric powered mowers driven by men who only speak Spanish and have callused hands do it instead? Is the school home to the Bulldogs? Or is it the Knights?    
Kansas. Do folks earn their beans and bacon at Iron Bull? At Willow’s Plow? Or E-A-R-P? What is a Why Burger and does Door Dash deliver? Is the Help Wanted sign still in the Waffle House window? 
Kansas. Do Prairie Dogs really land at Prairie Dog landing? Is the Haunted House really haunted? Does Mrs. Stella Green still own Green’s Landscaping? Did Miss Fortune come to work this week? 
Kansas. Where the restless wind blows. Where the hot sun shines and white stars stud the night sky and soon snowflakes will fly and Casey’s is open eighteen hours a day.