I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry. Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.

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Ruined, she tried to strain the spaghetti (not knowing what al dente was, even). Wrecked and destroyed, she stood on tippy-toes — the water was warm; it made her nervous — and pouuuuuured it into the…

“Only one ring away,” I told myself while swiping the small glass screen of my cell phone with my sweaty thumb, repeatedly pushing down the illuminated green icon with the white telephone receiver. I was seated in a small crowded courtroom with hard…

We deny one another, here,/ as long as it’s plausible.

If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath

I arrange my stones in circles

Language is a human presence ....

This world is always at least as strange as it seems, but usually far more strange, so many non-repeatable phenomena . . . .

We were fleeing hurricane Katrina. We stopped somewhere in Texas at a roadside diner, but found a sign that said it was closed. We were so hungry. All of a sudden as we sat there in our car, the shop's owner knocked on the window and asked what he could g

Greek women commonly reduced their pubic hair by singeing. K.J. Dover

It's time, more than anything

I was disappointed with love, and like everyone else, stammered out of love into a place horrified with meaning.

One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else. “The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.” She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has

So I told her think of it this way: you’re my unlived life.

I awake one morning to find that still, the leaves continue to fall.

They were once a crown,of some living stag -- not quite old,not quite young: now bone. Something at the cusp of its age. Here they stand, given by a loved friendon a place in my home; smelling, whenI get very close, of time. They are shaped like small…