In the early evening sunlight the iron planks over Old Hennessey Bridge, cast jail-bar shadows on the riverbank— a fearful illusion for those sojourned there: the waywards: free of charge, obscure, perishable, beneath the trestles. The rundown backstreet leading to their hidden path backs up to the pumping station, abandoned shopping carts, and assorted dumpsters. Under the bridge’s refuge, the stink of tar and urine floats up on hot dampish […]
Tatiana Louder | Tableau for One
There are only four total hours You need to be inside. Past sunset, Deep in the dark, folks are still taking evening walks. 10 or 11, you could be another one on the way to the club. Round midnight. The outdoors wears on you– You’ve been on the train all day. Places are closed, so are their restrooms. Cinderella would be home now. Nothing good happens past 2 am. You […]
No more invisible people | An interview with Alan Graham
Before Alan Graham became a fulltime volunteer and champion of people who are chronically homeless, he was a successful real estate investor and developer. His companies, Trilogy Development and the Lynxs Group, developed the airport cargo facility in Austin, Texas, and similar facilities at airports around the country. In 1998, however, while a member of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, Graham was inspired to begin a service ministry. With a […]
Charles Venable | One size fits all
one day, i met the invisible man walking down the road in nothing but a pair of shoes— he stopped mid-step when he saw me i saw no hands, but the shh-shh of a mom shushing her kids sang from the sidewalk: don’t tell nobody, he warned, they won’t believe you anyway the invisible man crossed the street; cars didn’t honk at him just the thud of bumper on skin, […]
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