Gate City Mill
Shawnee, Oklahoma
(my daughter took this rather nice photo)
© C.C. Brooks

"They worked and died young but I'd like to think they died free.  They believed in freedom of dirt, turning sod, turning possibility over and over . . . "
                -from the poem "Ancestors" by Ken Hada

Dock 1
Shawnee, Oklahoma
© C.C. Brooks

"He had read that in the Middle Ages hell was thought to be a place without birds."
                -from The Big Seven by Jim Harrison

Shawnee, Oklahoma
© C.C. Brooks

“Some of the religious say the five senses are thieves

So let’s say I’m stolen
Because my senses are all awake . . . “

            -from the poem “Eucalyptus” by Linda Hogan

at National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
OKC
© C.C. Brooks

"He had read an endless amount of history . . . simply to see what happened.  He had heard that hundreds of historians had committed suicide.  Our universities should be charnel houses."
               -from The Big Seven by Jim Harrison

Shawnee, Oklahoma
© C.C. Brooks

"It was appropriate that humans felt insignificant contemplating the cosmos when our own historical record was so appalling.  You needed only to read about the inception of World War I to feel navy blue shame for humankind."
               -from The Big Seven by Jim Harrison 

Shawnee, Oklahoma
© C.C. Brooks