Around the Barn, Poems to Think About

One might say that Around the Barn is a befitting title for a book written by an author who spent his childhood out in the country. The old barn was his iconic shelter and headquarters for playing hide-and-seek, or cowboys and indians, among the neatly stacked bales of hay. When chores were done, it was "off to the barn." The old barn was also a perfect place for solitude, as the author found no quieter place to think and write.    By using poetry as his vehicle, Walter A. Wheat prods