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 ...
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
