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The Coach

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We sat in the weight room. The coach walked in with his clipboard and stood until we were quiet.

Alone

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It's not loneliness I'm afraid of. It's how I would be happy to be alone too much.

Community

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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community

What I wanted in 1981

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i stained his hockey sheets right over the red wings

Halloween Hangover

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Did someone say BOO?

Bullshit Aeneid

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Of arms and the man...

Shira Dances

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She feels the music deep in her belly,her hips swaying, she looks out through lids no longer guardedand sees you, Her knees bend, her eyes close, She is moving back and forth,a pulse in time,Her arms snake around her head,She does not ask,may I enjoy myself?…

Please

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"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."

Easter

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Marge didn't eat lamb or pork.

No Hay Bandaid

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Pain is the saddle which rides me Pain is the cowboy's gun More morphing, please!

The Poet. Pt. 2

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for the rush of longing and brush with flight that is her imagination will surely lift her above the traffic

Liking in "The Scarlet Letter"

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like the dome of an immense lamp like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide

Martini

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She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.

Gaza Suite

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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.

Soon, and for the Rest of Your Life

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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.

Then, But Not Now

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The one-legged crow was back in the yard again today, as it was yesterday and may have been before, but yesterday was the first time I noticed it among the murder while using the binoculars that I often use to bring things closer, things like these iridescent and beautiful…

Sherando

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the Blue Ridge Mountains were entangled in their usual mist, but the early morning sky looked good

4 o' clock

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I still walk into galleries. A shadow of my old self still walks into galleries. That old self was hungry to be wounded by the juxtaposition of color and form and texture and line and darkness and light. But I can no longer see art. I can…

Amends

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We met in graduate school. We were both taking a course on teaching using the case study method over at the Business School. I was from psychology. She was from biology. We were both getting Harvard doctorates. But as many people…

Klonakilty

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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.

Corporal Punishment

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When I was a little boy, I had a thing about women’s behinds.

Fulfillment

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And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.

A Journal of the Plague Year: Day 289: Valedictory for a Clown

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the end of this journal

To All the Lights

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I have nothing in me but a raw loneliness right now. It's as if someone whirl-winded me out of the sky into the middle of the ocean in the middle of the red faced night. My fate seems immobile, sealed, doomed to a rocking nothingness, like…

Collectors

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what do you collect?

Today: Journal, July 21, 2007

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Sex is a sad reason to be alone with someone.

Quiet

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He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.

Falling Man

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My mother pointed to the soaring red towers, each with 600,000 rivets, she said, put in place by men like my Pa, by their sweat and arms as hard as balcony railings.

"Bitter" Revision

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I was thinking that the feminists pounding the city pavement had increased rent with every footstep, not that I was not one, but we had not earned our money at it or put our money together.

The Facts of This Life as Its End Approaches

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The knees remind you: you are old,/ and broken, and unlikely to improve