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Rattan's short stories are filled with humor and positive observations of charming characters with penetrating insights that amuse and entertain the reader: The math teacher "As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more clearly, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folk of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Shall I tell you what I consider to be wrong? What I consider to be wrong is that most of the people in the Western...

"Take Your Time Coming Home," by Cleatus Rattan, poet Laureate of Texas for 2004-05, is a book that begins with initiation themes for the child and proceeds to initiation of the adolescent and college student and cowboy. Later, the poet tries to deal with the initiation to war. Finally, a prevailing theme is that of aging and death. The point-of- view is from the aging to the aged, then from the point-of-view of the loved-one survivor to the attitude of the dying to the survivor. Nothing morbid--just a refreshing look.

Poems from sonnets to free verse focus on pleasures and problems in ranch life and in west Texas, which include variations differing for generations returning to the ranch, and those family members who leave the ranch for city life.
CORMORANTS JOURNEY
Snowbirds come diving down, sliding in
carelessly splatting,
pecking on windows, doors,
building nests, dropping threads,
shards of old nests hanging on their beaks,
claws. Their fluttering white feathers
blocking the sun s puny attempts to break through,
making the streets slick with their droppings
...

A volume of poetry by Cleatus Rattan, a former marine who ranches 100 miles west of Fort Worth near Cisco, a small town of some 3000 souls cinched by the Bible Belt.