Creases

“You’ll just have to let things unfold,” she told me. I don’t know if I was more confused by “let” or “unfold.” “Let” is difficult, but “unfold” is even more unimaginable, suggesting as it does that someone else folded things (theist though I may be, a personal God who folds things up? madness) or that things […]

Strangers

When we came out of the bar in Iowa City, there were still twenty people on the other side of the street. They were holding signs and chanting in front of the Old Capitol. We had had nice cocktails at an upstairs bar. We had participated in a round of applause for the bartender called […]

Downstream

The wine at the Foxhead is just like the wine at St. Mary’s. At the Foxhead, I got a history the place and the owners from the small crew sitting at the bar, and I got directions to the haunted place in town where I should go. At St. Mary’s I got a dark bit […]

Fourth

I figured they’d be late, so I went up after 9. I went to the northeast corner, so I could see the buildings we can see, the downtown Brooklyn clock tower, and the so-called Freedom Tower. The sides of the roof have tiles that are bent over to protect the edges. The roof is scratchy. […]