Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

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 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

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear