Happy Days by Jim Burke

I see bare-assed trees against the skyline, spooky as hell. They are waiting, knowing, something’s coming, rising, and I’m listening to the American actor, Jon Hamm, reciting Frank O’Hara’s poem, “Mayakovsky.” All across the sky there is light. I was five years old in nineteen fifty nine. I had beaten pneumonia. My younger brother Doug, […]