Prairie flowers

Give me a home where the buffalo roam

I write from the corner “office” at the public library in my hometown in Emporia, Kansas, staring out the big window at the big-breasted robins hopping from tree-limb to tree-limb.

Yesterday I went stomping around the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, at one point wading far into the muddy prairie grasses to avoid the bison lounging leisurely near the…