a tale of two cars
part 1 My entire life, I’ve only known one soul who answered to the name of “Lucky.” That’s not all that surprising, when you think...
disorder reigns
5 At the occult party, I’m dressed in green velvet, a plunging neckline, a cedar waxwing skull on a chain around my neck, a brass wolf...
evicting angels
Bastards of the Reagan Era By Reginald Dwayne Betts Four Way Books ($15.95) Reginald Dwayne Betts’ second collection of poetry, Bastards...
a different kind of warmth
Another winter tightens its skeleton-tree grip around my landscape. The air is painful to breathe. The rare siren-song of brief...
an unobstructed view
a fare to remember I always thought my parents were crazy. Of course everyone thinks their parents are crazy, but mine registered...
ghost stories
lights The first apartment was haunted. Haunted might be the wrong word. There was an energy about it. Vibrating down walls, tension...
your urban outwitters
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disorder reigns
4 I cut thick strips of imitation challah while our black cat, her mean eyes turned downward, licks the end of the loaf. I will beat the...
sociopolitical musings, in list form
house majority alternatives to immigration reform Instead of “amnesty,” grant DREAMers invitations to an inner-city church-group meeting....
me, my wife, and the derecho
My wife and I have been happily married—not giddily happily, but happily enough—for 40 years. From time to time I have been asked what...