Partly Paved, doubly illustrated by Joyce Shon and James B. Wheeler
The dynamic duo, Joyce Shon and James B. Wheeler, collaborated on this pair of illustration versions. I don't know which to prefer, so am posting both. If you have an inkling toward one or the other, please comment and let me know. Enjoy! *** Partly paved Where the road stopped, an old train track, half-lost, crossed my trail's T. One way pointed into town. It struck me that I'd noticed the brown steel paved into 3rd Street, the lot at Jack’s, and many spots where the railway ran before the brambles of town grew on it. The opposite ray of vanishing track bent around an overgrown, unbuilt hillock. I went that way. Threadbare green gowns, dappled silences, and old-time ponderings filled the afternoon until evening. Until the ties stopped their ladder steps where I'd strayed. What color were the northern skies those days when coffee cost a dime? By Joyce Shon and James B. Wheeler Li...