Borrowed Coats (book)

McDaniel, Wilma. (2001). Borrowed Coats. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Burned in the Test

Burned in the Test 11
A Zealot in Big Muddy 12
Could I Stop There 13
Can Crows Smell Jasmine 14
Frying Potatoes 15
Murder Past Midnight 16
Thoughts After Telephone Call 17
Waiting for a Train 18
My New Business 19
Finding Old Perfume Bottle 20
Entrapment 21
Going to Autographing in Foreign Car 22
New California Industry 23
Agreement 24
Suddenly I Remember 25
Breadstuff 26
Live and Let Live 27
January Reality, 1998 28
At Spring Yard Sale 29
We Never Called It Theatre 30
Where on Earth 31

Late Spring for a Catholic

Admission 35
My Question 36
To Boating Friends 37
In Their Company 38
In the Paradise Restaurant 39
Late Spring for a Catholic 40
Opal. 41
The Extremist 42
Dignity 43
Some Day Soon 44
My Landlady Brings Me an Easter Gift 45
Sister Beuline's Advice 46
Surprise 47
Calling on a Bereaved Neighbor 48
I Never Felt Right 49
Vigil with Aunt Maggie Bowman 50
Tonight Is Carnival 51

Out of the Mouths

The Last Go-Around 55
A Grandfather's View 56
A Mother's Vocation. 57
My Brother and His Barber 58
I Have My Own Ideas 59
Mourners 60
News on the Legal Front 61
Forty-Five-Year-Old Man on Total Disability 62
Perfume Hound 63
Cornered 64
Reprimand at Rosewood Manor 65
Bonus Concert in Tulare, 1997 66
Friendship Fracture 67
A Proper Present 68
Revelation 69
A Blustery Palm Sunday in Tulare, California 70
Solution 71
I Would Like to Shoot the Quack 72
Is Woody Gilmore Only a Two-Timer 73
Maybe I Am All Wrong 74
Fastidious Leonard 75
Bad Timing 76
After the Loss 77
Mismatch 78
Out of the Mouths of Bail Bondsmen 79
Two Helens 80

Pies

Remembering 83
A Mug for Comfort 84
A Notable Death of 1949 85
California Frigid Zone, 1937 87
Literary Mentor 88
Let Yourself Go 89
Vineyard Phantasy 90
Nineteen Thirty 91
Courting Music 92
Inflation. 93
Two Worlds 94
Opening My Mail. 96
Obsession with Hunting Greens 97
A Fine Cuisine Memory 98
Ancestor 99
Sweat 100
Remembering Farm Women 101
Mrs. Percival's Toilet Water 102
Recollections of Homestead Uncle 103
Waiting Game, 1926 104
A Pagan Mystery 105
The Zane Grey Secret 106
Summer Hired Hand, 1926107
Our Old Ways 108
Great Depression Tragedy 109
My Father's Brothers 110
Pies 111
Borrowed Coats (poem) 112