pinball wizard

Three blind mice Three blind mice See how they run See how they run They all ran after the farmer’s wife she cut off their tails with a carving knife did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice My second day post-school. Still in my recovery period. I try […]

Jungle

We breathed the thick air of the jungle of Omaha, the day after Grandma’s funeral. There were fuzzy gibbons, one of them with a baby hooked to her, and we looked hard at the two of them, my mother, my sisters, me, us four. We walked through the butterfly house, watching our feet to not […]

Requiem

Barkley Andronovich was a difficult dog. I gave him the Andronovich when I was reading a Russian novel. Not War and Peace. (Hey, when you’ve read War and Peace you’ll work it into conversation, too.) Probably Anna Karenina. Russian novels are so comfortable to read, and the people are so itchy. Barkley was itchy. We’ve […]