us vs. them suburban weekend

1. last light.
2. train rides to long island.
3. buy beer.
4. babylon sushi dinner.

5. robert moses beach day.


6. gemelli's grilling in the backyard.


7. red sox game.
8. drag me to hell.

9. bagel breakfast.
10. wimbeldon.
11. hockey break.


12. brick lane.
13. beach beers.

14. robert moses day 2.


15. gemelli's day 2.

16. early morning drive back to the city.

happy meal

best weekend.

1. happy hour at trailer park
2. dinner at spitzer's
3. drinks at motor city
4. crash at ace hotel

5. iced coffee and rockefeller center
6. nhl store
7. times square
8. bryant park
9. empire state building
10. lombardi's pizza
11. the dead end wiffle ball league inaugural games
12. hotel date
13. dinner in times square
14. drinks at ace hotel

15. brunch at park luncheonette
16. iced coffee at uro
17. mccarren park craft fair
18. shopping on n6th
19. drinks at iona
20. drinks at supyten duyvil
21. haircut
22. laundry
23. park beers
24. dinner at dumont burger
25. park beers

giving up the ghost

Ghost

Now your name's just a guest here, one that cancels
all hellos. Fleshless
you come & go through the mansion

of air. How
will I address you, small
weather? Sometimes your name's

a dress like an iron
bell the years
swing shadows from

longer that home. Can you hear
that word peal? I'm going
there now,

carrying the windows
from inside
all the vowels.

Mark Irwin

The Iowa Review
Spring 2009

night out with douglas

i love this and don't care who knows it

the new phoenix album is sick.

timely lost fotune's pulled from pocket

"before you see the light, you have to deal with the darkness."

"cookies go stale. fortunes are forever."