Category: Chicago
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Brown Elephant
where we deposit all sins of excess, failed solutions, self-lies to find their next hatching. You absorb each one without judgment, our grandmother buddha, tenderly ignoring the endless missteps worked by this scrum of larkers. We spin on, sneak your cookies, refuse to sit still. Through it all, you maintain your meditative hour, at the…
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Stopping by lakefront on my way home
I always think it’s aspens here but maybe it’s cottonwoods you can’t really tell unless the seeds are falling and we are way past that now. Between the leaves flipping and knocking in the wild rush off the lake and the pounding of the archers on their targets behind you an odd space opens for…
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All that seems forever
hill rolls under concrete, skyscrapers, shops, trains, all that seems forever as I climb toward my hotel all that seems forever bends to the hill, rather than the hill bending to it even as the hill shifts its edges, shakes out its cramped spine at will so that all that seems builds its forever in…
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One day in Tangiers
when my feet were sore we shuttled as tourists do from one cobbled shop to the next fitting in more than we should seeking water, hoping for tea, and happening upon the oceanfront through the broken gate all suddenly familiar ruins piled in their own kind of beach head, covered with graffiti, teenagers tramping for…
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Memorial stone
I can leave you only a wisp of my breath and honest intent as I pause, watching you, with both eyes, a swollen heart, and wonder if my wisp builds upon you with all these others, millions and millions I see now and can only imagine, and worry if we impose a burden adding to…
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Lunch break
down michigan avenue to escape into the wild, to refresh in a kind of feral opening, to stroll past the nature of things, to take in Darwinian oddities unmatched in the deepest forest shops, tourists, taxis, flower pots, stop lights where a shoreline used to wave and flood and turn and curl civilizing the piles…
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