Ghost at the Hy-Vee
I’d seen him just two months before—his brother’s service, condolencesover orange juice—but when I shook Dan’s hand between aisles, my lips spoke Jack.Or Jack spoke Jack through me, slipping backby vowel rhyme, and…
I’d seen him just two months before—his brother’s service, condolencesover orange juice—but when I shook Dan’s hand between aisles, my lips spoke Jack.Or Jack spoke Jack through me, slipping backby vowel rhyme, and…
1 In a dream, as in a dream,they sit around a roundtable, seven of them, friendsof each other and of me, too,including two of my oldestand closest. They look likea…
At 5:00 a.m., under the red line platform in Ambler Heights,you can’t see the river, sunrise breaking across the water, sunshinewarming the sandstone of the Hope Memorial Bridge.Unseen from here…