“Patty’s Charcoal Drive-In” by Barbara Crooker from Selected Poems. © Future Cycle Press, 2015. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 It’s the birthday of novelist, poet, and short-story writer Josephine Winslow Johnson, born in Kirkwood, Missouri (1910). In 1932, Johnson left college to help out on the family farm. She also set up a small table in the attic at which she began writing short stories. After several were printed in magazines, an editor called her and asked if she would consider writing a novel. She sat down at her attic table and began to write what became
“The dark pours down, sticky as Coke”
"She rushes through the wild heather"
“The dark pours down, sticky as Coke”
"She rushes through the wild heather"