These poems have been wrung through a random number generator, but alas to no avail. For has not our American Buddha taught us that even - a] great disorder is an order-? In this volume, you will find
*love-songs-tempered-with-judgment to the author's adopted state
*expressions of affirmation and doubt
*love poems to the author's lifetime one-and-only from the time she was nineteen right up to the present
*several Christmas poems, including a new take on The Night Before Christmas
*modest tributes to some of the -real- poets who have sustained him
*poems composed...

These poems have been wrung through a random number generator, but alas to no avail. For has not our American Buddha taught us that even - a] great disorder is an order-? In this volume, you will find
*love-songs-tempered-with-judgment to the author's adopted state
*expressions of affirmation and doubt
*love poems to the author's lifetime one-and-only from the time she was nineteen right up to the present
*several Christmas poems, including a new take on The Night Before Christmas
*modest tributes to some of the -real- poets who have sustained him
*poems composed...

Muskogee was formed in 1872, when the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT or "the Katy") established a depot on an open plain just a few miles to the south of the confluence of the Arkansas, Grand, and Verdigris Rivers in Indian Territory. A small settlement there soon grew to become the center of political and commercial activity in the territory prior to Oklahoma becoming a state in 1907. Muskogee, once known as the "Queen City of the Southwest," enjoyed major growth after statehood due to oil, cattle, cotton, and the railroads. This book features a diverse collection of Muskogee postcard...