1355 21 18
|
Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.
|
1519 21 18
|
There can be no convergence./
There is only the talking that talks about/
an angle of sight nothing else can share.
|
1878 21 7
|
I didn’t like her. I like the name. You know I hate that name. I always thought you were funny. Maybe even more than you were mean.
|
1777 21 16
|
When we were very young, we didn't tell because we didn't know any better. Now we are six, and we don't tell because no one has believed us since we told the story about the vampire upstairs. Now we're twelve, and we don't tell because our family's weird enough, living…
|
1334 21 8
|
Wind pummeled me awake, smelling of pine and some quality of newness I could not identify...
|
1061 21 21
|
Each angry man leaps from a boy tempered by existential harm.
|
1439 21 17
|
For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
|
1143 21 10
|
I approached him slowly. His voice was soft and raspy. He said, "Kneel down my son, I've been expecting you."
|
1162 21 12
|
"the rum tasted of hibiscus blossoms"
|
1448 21 19
|
Is: soozly, soggly, 'shrooms and shrimp, chickens and eggs-dropped, skinny brown smooths,snappyish peas and humblestumblingin hothappy broth.
These flinging…
|
1580 21 8
|
I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
|
1894 21 13
|
“What sort of truck was it in Texas?” Carlisle says.
“Small as truck goes,” Mill says. “Smaller than a full-size pick-up.”
|
669 21 10
|
--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery."
--"Well, you can't have everything."
--"No? I heard otherwise."
|
1945 21 13
|
‘I love you' said the man at the book signing.
He was one of the last. The shop was closing. The staff were starting to turn off the lights. She was sitting in the glow of a table lamp with her latest novel in stacks around her.
|
173 21 15
|
where teenage mothers sat in the waiting room feeding babies from bottles filled with Coca-Cola and Group 13 was filled with the unluckiest women in the world.
|
1455 21 13
|
|
1773 21 13
|
This is my house. You park in the back.
*
This is a picture of flowers and hands.
|
1713 21 17
|
How to not be a redneck? Basically, it is a matter of volume, ancestor worship, respect for the truth and a command of the English language.
|
1602 21 16
|
Highway 45N cost me four dogs when I was growing up. Actually, having our backyard abut the highway was the real problem. It got to be where I was afraid to get too attached. We lost Nicky,…
|
1011 21 11
|
She connects to you
via snarling vines
& worm-woven tunnels.
Drops Roman numerals
|
1253 21 8
|
...ancient answers for new questions.
|
2134 21 21
|
So there are these teenagers and they're all dying of cancer, or at least were dying of cancer, or might be dying of cancer, and then a couple of them fall in love and lose their virginity to each other, and these teens, they're all smart and charming and only a little…
|
171 21 20
|
|
2093 21 16
|
The afternoon my little sister won her first U.S. Open, I was also busy, having strenuous sex with David Solemn, a man I’d met earlier that morning at Dunkin Donuts. We did it on the white living room carpet in my parent’s new Connecticut house while
|
1349 21 18
|
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
|
2002 21 6
|
"... he likes the hair starting to grow under my arms and he likes the smell there when my deodorant is wearing off. "
|
840 21 12
|
No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
|
1856 21 9
|
"You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them out flat."--Renoir "Dreaming is free."--Blondie "I can't vouch for my ability to avoid dullness..the odd position in which poets find themselves explains their often-sentimental identification with the…
|
1555 21 19
|
Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
|
985 21 14
|
Let routine/
propel you through/
the day after/
the day before.
|