Wedge, Philip2015-01-302015-01-301999Wedge, Philip. "Slowly Along The Riverbeds," Coal City Review 14 (1999): 45-77.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/16448Slowly Along The Riverbeds by Philip Wedge For my family Acknowledgments South West Arts (England) for a "Work in Progress" Literature Award. "Car Keys" first appeared in Amelia. "Deaf and Blind" first appeared in The American Scholar. "Christmas, 1979" first appeared in Blue Unicorn. "Memory Poem" first appeared in Confluence, an anthology of Kansas poetry (Cottonwood 31/32). "Rue Ste. Catherine" first appeared in Cottonwood Review's Open House. "Thomas Hardy, O. M." first appeared in Country Life (UK). "Prayer" first appeared in High Plains Literary Review. "The Sandpits," "Catechism," "Her Pregnancy," "Natural," "On a February Morning," and "Van Gogh's 'Crows over a Cornfield'," first appeared in Kansas Quarterly. "Wagtail" first appeared in Naked Man. "Generations" first appeared in New Letters Review of Books. "Home on Leave" and "In Retrospect" first appeared in Stone Country.ArticleopenAccess