""Cursed with wings: and other frustrations"" is a collection of original poetry and prose that captures quiet moments of life and death in the sacred spaces of nature, farm, and family. The author takes you under a whirling flock of cranes, into a morning on a Sandhills ranch, and through the lens of time in a Solomon Butcher photograph. Sit under a shade tree to watch a field become planted, bounce along rocks to visit an African village, and clap along as a bar singer brings out the best in her aged audience. ""Cursed with wings"" asks the reader to contemplate the frustrations that...