…ellipsis…

ellipsis ©Vincent Hostak November 6, 2024 …hope… both precedes and follows the ellipsis. Three dark specks conjoined which, alone, work only to end the conversation. Alone, dark and soundless, like faces of tiny wells which somehow found each other on the landscape then chose to stand together, saying: “by this omission, we mean more,” andContinue reading “…ellipsis…”

October Town

“An October sort of city even in the spring. With somebody’s washing always whipping, in smoky October colors off the third-floor rear by that same wind that drives all the yellowing comic-strips down all the gutters that lead away from home.” -Nelson Algren, Nobody knows where O’Connor went, Chicago: City On the Make, 1952 I’mContinue reading “October Town”