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Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…