when Dee was still alive and her cancer was in remission we went out for dinner one night a… downtown Cadillac during the winte… after we pulled up to the restaura…

when I was around ten years old we went camping up at Barnes Park by Torch Lake we’d go to the beach and ride Sea-… on one particular ride

I like seeing what you’re doing now you’re writing poem books you’re teaching

for my birthday some years we’d go… at Johnson Park there used to be a lot of people o… climbing up the hill and then flyi… I remember my sister Madi and my…

my younger brother Dexter used to own a little Bravo snowmob… we would attach a tow-rope and a small plastic boogie board we would take wide laps around the…

in high school Charlie and I used to push out our fellow studen… who were stuck in snowbanks we’d come into class half-frozen and late

when we were living at Cheryl’s fa… in Grant, Courtney’s and my room were right next to each other I remember we would just sit on th… right outside our doors

One winter day my friends and I were getting together to play bask… I think I picked up Charlie or he… already hanging out with me we got in my truck and were drivin…

drinking aromatic coffee and writi… in the tired morning whatever happened to those ingenious couch cartoons? we used to cruise our bikes

before there was any real pressure turning us into diamonds we stood in the driveway in the falling snow the street lamps were orange and

the first full beer I ever drank was a Mike’s Hard Lemonade I took it from the fridge and drank it in the garage which was adjacent to the house

one of my favorite dates I’ve ever… was with a sorority girl named Len… she asked me out and we went to Park Theater for d… and dancing

we used to use Ms. VanDam’s yard constantly either playing on it or cutting through to see friends she lived directly behind our old…