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the home place

January 31, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

The house
seems smaller.
Silent.
Matured
pecan trees
shelter
our past.
Another
lifetime.
Clover
spreads where iris
once grew.
talya
Musical Pairing:
Silent House, Dixie Chicks

Filed Under: Farm Tagged With: Mississippi County, Nana, Northeast Arkansas

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Comments

  1. Angi Cartwright says

    January 31, 2013 at 7:24 am

    Only Country Girls know where Home Place is on a farm.

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      January 31, 2013 at 12:39 pm

      Never thought about that, but so true!

  2. Colene says

    January 31, 2013 at 8:31 am

    Nice!

  3. Kathy says

    January 31, 2013 at 8:56 am

    Lovely!

    Kathy
    http://gigglingtruckerswife.blogspot.com

  4. Anonymous says

    January 31, 2013 at 11:39 am

    Sweet but sad. B

  5. TimH says

    January 31, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    Very cool and very deeeeeep! Awesomeness!!!

  6. Patricia A. Laster says

    February 1, 2013 at 6:15 am

    I’m lucky. I’m living in my home place. Good idea to write about it.

  7. Dorothy Latimer Johnson says

    February 1, 2013 at 8:10 am

    Touching. I used to feel the same when I went by the house where I grew up in Searcy. We had a pecan tree in the back yard and my dad loved flowers so there were all kinds of old fashion flowering bushes, roses and spring flowers. The house was still in pretty good shape last time I drove by, but the neighborhood wasn’t so I vowed to stay away and just remember the block when it was new and every house had children in it. I had a great childhood!

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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