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Indian Plume (For Crazy Horse)
Crazy Horse stole his first wife. Black Buffalo Woman was married to another man named No Water. Crazy Horse just up and stole her and, in ...
The Radio Swan
Today is St. Patrick’s Day.
I never think much about my Irishness. My parents were not the “kiss me I’m Irish” types, though they were both ver...
The Black Swan
Some years ago, I made a few pieces all with different kinds of “Ace of Spades” motifs. I had planned a big series about my Father, whose nick-...
Hell’s Songbird (For Doc Holliday)
John Henry “Doc” Holliday was one of the West’s more storied gunfighters. He was an ill-tempered motherfucker who was perpetually drinking and ...
The Sad Music of Change (A Songbird for Nick the Greek)
Nicholas Dandolos (Nick the Greek) was a professional gambler and high-roller of legendary repute in the ’40s, ’50s and early ’60s. Rumor has i...
Songbird for Nelson Algren
I’ve made more than a few tributes to the great Chicago writer Nelson Algren. His shadow looms large over how I see the city. Algren, of cour...
The Bruised Village
I live in Ukrainian village in Chicago. A great many of my neighbors don’t even speak English. They like being among themselves. They are susp...
Ueno Park Red Bird
I was thinking of my friends in New Orleans as I made this piece, the beads and ornamentation, the echo of Lafcadio Hearn who left New Orleans t...