So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
