77th and Greenwood

What you keep and what you lose

Me, flanked by my parents, circa December, 1978. Mom was pregnant with my brother, Phil, so this counts as our only “complete” family photo. The home where this was taken no longer exists. Parents are both gone too. (Image by author)

It was an old neighborhood
on the edge of nowhere,
hemmed-in to the east by
railway right-of-way,

leading north to the heart of
Second City, and south,
by southeast towards Indiana,
or perhaps nowhere in particular.