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Category Archives: Chicago

Old elm (revised)

April 14, 2020

Abandoned farmhouse, graying outbuildings. In your final winter, you stood with empty, cracking branches to tell us plain that your …

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Early morning on Lake Shore Drive

February 25, 2017

maze of brown at the center, trees empty of leaves, row after row stretching to scattered hazel edging the lake, …

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On healing and revolution

December 3, 2016

Gazing up this terrible mountain, you say, love is not enough, though when I add together everything else and stack …

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After a long hot afternoon in the city

June 30, 2016

cooling breath tumbles across acrid plain presses away heat steaming concrete mental stagnation of shuttered windows, locked doors grass no …

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Karma

April 20, 2016

I sat here at this table many years ago. The door was on State then, not Chicago; three shops sold …

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Old elm

April 7, 2016

Abandoned farmhouse, greying outbuildings. Our old elm on the corner that died last year stood through the winter to remind …

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Brown Elephant

February 3, 2016

where we deposit all sins of excess, failed solutions, self-lies to find their next hatching. You absorb each one without …

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Stopping by lakefront on my way home

January 14, 2016

I always think it’s aspens here but maybe it’s cottonwoods you can’t really tell unless the seeds are falling and …

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All that seems forever

January 8, 2016

hill rolls under concrete, skyscrapers, shops, trains, all that seems forever as I climb toward my hotel all that seems …

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One day in Tangiers

December 3, 2015

when my feet were sore we shuttled as tourists do from one cobbled shop to the next fitting in more …

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