Lost Anecdote From the Pages of Vasari

by Garrett Brown

Originally published on May 1, 2001

Spring cleaning in Baltimore always involved
a yellow bucket sloshing with soapy water
and a rag recognized as the tattered remains
of my father’s bowling shirt, circa 1973.
I would be sent to the front of the house
on the first warm day of shorts
and no socks to wipe the marble steps.
It was also springtime, I would [...]