Meanwhile
Get out with Scotty (No. 2)
After the trash trucks come the F Building dumpster booms hollow with every trash bag and the taps on my window disappear for a few days.
Andrew Morrisey
Meanwhile
Nobody on Aldridge Street ever throws the good life out
Dogwood skeletons checker parts of the common yards pink and the sun rides over F Building just right for an afternoon nap, but the apartments on Aldridge Street never have what Scotty is looking for. Nobody parts with big TV sets here, nobody parts with cigarettes.
Meanwhile
Get out with Scotty (No. 1)
We are on our way to the Fresh & Go for a get out, a strawberry soda pop and cigarettes for Scotty, when he stops walking and snaps his shiny bald head around like the red-tails I see on my evening river walks, one that’s just sensed a rabbit in the wildgrass.
Waves // Blog + Newsletter
Flames On the Launchpad
Welcome, world, to right here and to me and to wherever you may be. The calendars are calling it September right now. The lightning bugs have left the lawns but the sun still hits my neighbor’s windshield well enough to blind me at my desk around lunch time. The