Concourse (HS 126)

I’ve always felt that I could hear more languages spokenhere at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airportthan I could hear anywhere else … More

Ghost

Yesterday I had a suspicion. All day long I sensedthat last night you might sneak up from behind,put your arms … More

Last night late I looked at stars,observed the light that traveled so far from long ago,thought about how old, old … More

Everything made absolute sense. I would run through my scales, practice my chords, my little exercise pieces. I was, if not talented, … More

In the fog, the lost wander on,so pain comes with the rainfor somewhere a child is lostand that pain is … More

The humming in my head is so persistentit gets me up in the middle of the night. Night hunger, like … More

Suddenly I woke up, straining to look up,heard that incessant beating on the doorby the frozen hand, and I saw … More

Mrs. Kimura always gave us all kinds of goodies over the years. She would make them herself, all year round. A month … More

I love retirement. In the morning, when folks are standing at the bus stop outside my house, I hang on … More

Since the time he’d had braces as a kid, he’d been a floss-aholic. Any food particle between his teeth drove him … More

Sometimes it felt like everything came down to a beautiful struggle in the dark, the work and work until she … More

If she’s told them once . . . well, she has told them once, hasn’t she? Hasn’t she? It’s hard to … More

He’s always thinking about other people, more particularly, what he can do for this family. Barbeque perhaps, bake some muffins, … More

I run across the street, against the red light,to get out of the downpour. I have no umbrellaagain. I never know … More

So, yeah, that’s the last one there. None of themare perfect, of course, none exactly to my tastes, really,but I’m no … More

The plaque says 1909, I read as I leanupon this venerable stone wall, and can seesomeone laid these stones, fit … More

I remembered how Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin, stood before the U.S. Senate and cautioned them not to approve authorization for … More

Near seven decades of run on, sentenced to a worn and hazy neatlythere you go, so you’ve slowed, you slowly, … More

The idea is knowing that I can gosomewhere, and I am making the firstpattern of steps, no one has ever … More