Monthly Archives: September 2021

For the past few years——even though I don’t use them to fill prescriptions, and never have, except for when the doctor from the clinic erroneously sends scripts to them——Bienestar Pharmacy, located in the lobby of the place I go for checkups in Pilsen, has texted me a happy birthday message. No one, save for myContinue reading “Feliz Cumpleaños (from Bienestar Pharmacy)”

Win Cloud changed my life without even quickening his breath. When I was sixteen, my father signed me up for a figure drawing class. It met Wednesday evenings on one of the upper floors of the student union on the campus of the university where my father worked. Every other student taught or went toContinue reading “Win Cloud”

This one begins from a box-set of fifteen French-language instruction 45s. They’re in a crate of records my landlords are tossing. Their place——upstairs from mine——is about to become a demolition, then construction zone. It’s been in the works for years; now it’s happening. I expect to spend a lot of time elsewhere in the comingContinue reading “Practice Set”