Small Town Portraits

Lives of residents collaged as their portraits hang from a gallery’s ceiling and spotlight shine upon their faces. They are old they are young they are boys and men they are girls and women these people who have called a small Iowa town their own. Some have posed in fields some by their houses and they frown or smile their faces offering reflections of the lives they’ve known but in their eyes, I see reflections of the many lives I’ve lived as I stroll through the gallery. My memories stir inside a deep affection of quiet drives through the countryside and past this quiet town. Once when I stopped for a pizza a light shown upon the face of a girl at the counter. lights shine like stars on small town people living ordinary lives