Second Cup of Almost Second cup of almost Going cold on the table You left your laugh in the doorway Your coat on the kitchen chair Slow drip of the daylight On your half-finished fable You said you’d just be a minute You’re late by a couple years I’m still here (still here) Still [...]
The Lost Years About ten years ago, I was sitting with my friend and bandmate of more than three decades in The O’bros, Jay Moran, in our usual spot on Genna’s Lounge’s outdoor patio. Like we so often did, we were tossing around scraps of songs and half-formed lyrics, chasing that feeling when a [...]
Our Town, Revisited Act One – Daily Life I first met Bob and Tia in a most unexpected way. It was the early 1990s, and I was struggling with persistent back pain. Searching for relief, I booked a session with a massage therapist named Jodie Curro. As fate would have it, Jodie was married [...]
That's me at far right outside "Moon" cabin in Gitchee Gumey five years before this story. What is Yacht Rock? “Sailing, takes me away to where I've always heard it could be. Just a dream and the wind to carry me, soon I will be free...” Christopher Cross, “Sailing” For me Camp [...]
June 12th is Loving Day. The day commemorates a monumental US Supreme Court case with an interracial couple at its center. In 1958, two residents of Virginia, a black woman and a white man were married in the District of Columbia. The couple returned home to Virginia shortly thereafter. [...]
The trees are full and green The garden lush and sweet The warm sun belies October To truth I must surrender The hours, they are numbered The last days of summer […]
It turns out that Wauwatosa means firefly. The Hochunck Indians who settled the land saw fit to name this place on the river for the almost magical insects that glow and fly in the thick, languid summer air. Recently I was driving toward the Sun Prairie home and a [...]
Here we are A place we’ve been before Those nights apart Left me wanting more […]
The beeps are more irregular now. They aren’t there to cause anyone to run. There will be no colored code, no carts and no soft-soled shoes hurrying along the polished linoleum floor that paves the hallway just outside the door. The beeps emitted from the heart monitor are only there to provide corroboration to [...]
Lead the way You must surely know what I’ve been searching for And where we’ll find it […]
