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Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
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…
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
