1761 16 11
|
I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
|
2048 16 9
|
|
1577 16 13
|
A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
|
1580 16 8
|
|
1673 16 11
|
What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
|
1572 16 13
|
The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
|
2361 16 13
|
1. Everyone disappears.2. Stars map themselves.3. The moon fills her bathtub over and over. You can't watch it for too long or you go mad, shouting, "Just get in, get in!"4. The ghosts of certain broken poets stand under apple trees and lean their hands on the…
|
2113 16 11
|
He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
|
1545 16 13
|
One sneaker in the middle of the A-Plus Pawn lot...
|
2166 16 9
|
On a night in 1952 he walked her home in the freezing rain, past the nativity in front of St. Mark's, sharing his flask of schnapps. Look, my fingers are prunes, she said. He kissed her hands and said, Let's name our firstborn Adlai. She laughed and said, No. Dwight.…
|
2303 16 8
|
I didn't go to China, however. I would have gone there in debt wearing their clothing. I was afraid to owe even $4,000 (what I still owe) living overseas.
|
1906 16 8
|
dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
|
1632 16 9
|
Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
|
1923 16 12
|
So I went to see the wrinkled
and rumpled poet, who insisted
on reading from memory, stumbling
through his sheaf of poems.
|
2187 16 12
|
The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
|
1678 16 12
|
A little poem about prison
|
1522 16 10
|
|
2018 16 11
|
I sit down next to a youngster on the couch. “Would you like to see?” she asks. “See what?” I reply....
|
2000 16 13
|
Write a poem in which your father is a dog and you are his leash.
|
1524 16 10
|
He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
|
1748 16 9
|
If love could only by heat be bound
|
2241 16 9
|
The Strongman used to weep alone in hissingle dusty tent at night, all of uscould hear him, sobbing, thinking about theone incredible time in his mostlymiserable life he accidentallybrushed his thick arm…
|
1650 16 10
|
A figure left the building.
|
1372 16 8
|
Rain and wind and the pecking of birds
|
1632 16 12
|
She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
|
1432 16 12
|
“Have the cousins arrived?”
|
4130 16 17
|
We descended directly from Charlemagne
|
1757 16 3
|
He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
|
4234 16 10
|
the slow stretches across the horizon
|
2912 16 7
|
The night my husband became a transvestite, crows started dying. They fell from the sky like black umbrellas, hitting the ground with a thud. A rainstorm of birds. I figured it was a virulent strain of bird flu that drifted into the clouds and killed them
|