The light of the moon beside hazy and dark outside.
Wavy figures moving to and fro Sinewy, long, always on the go!
Rustle of the leaves I hear sway them the branches near from the gentle wind that gushes. An occasional bark or meow distantly far, but my ear it reaches.
There it is again hiding in the shadows dancing in between light and harrow.
A figment of my imaginationโฆ care not, for slumber I follow my head gently hits the pillow!
Dan Flanigan is a novelist, poet, playwright, and practicing lawyer. Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, he received his Ph.D. from Rice University and J.D. from University of Houston. After a teaching stint at UVA, he returned home to work on the original Kansas City School Desegregation case. Later, he entered private practice, became a name partner at Polsinelli, created and chaired its Real Estate & Financial Services Department for two decades, and established their NYC office where he remains managing partner.
Taking a break from law from 1983 to 1985, he and his wife, Candy, founded Sierra Tucson, a prominent drug treatment center located in Tucson, Arizona.
Danโs recently published novel, Mink Eyes, is set in 1986 in a place very much like Kansas City and the Missouri Ozarks. Dan intends to bring this group of characters from the 1980โs through the present day. He has developed screenplay version of Mink Eyes as well as pilot for a TV series called OโKeefe.
Danโs other publications include Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death, a poetry collection dealing with the illness and death of his wife, and Dewdrops, a collection of short fiction. He has also written several plays: Secrets (based on Eleanor Marx, Karl Marxโs daughter, a social and political force in her own right in late Victorian England); Moondogโs Progress (based on Alan Freed, the disc jockey who โdiscoveredโ and was the major original promoter of rock n roll);and Dewdrops, a tragedy set in a drug and alcohol treatment center (this received a staged reading at the Theatre of the Open Eye in New York).
His inspirations include J.S. Bach, Shakespeare, Rumi, Bob Dylan, Secretariat (yes, the horse), Joseph Campbell, Turgenev, Yeats, Joyce, Robert Stone, and E.L. Doctorow.
He has also co-authored several books about business, finance, and real estate. He enjoys theater and believes in doing what’s best for the planet. He has a particular interest in orcas.