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Keep it, Curt

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Just move out.

The Trench

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His face was cold and hard as marble. Rudy’s angular features shuddered and twitched in the darkness.

No Face World Champ

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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.

Midnight Riders

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One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine. A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.

They're cutting the catalpa tree (Catalpa speciosa) in Essen, Germany

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They cut the tall specious tree storms snapped the night in two or three. At times they pause most piously to count each ring of truth, drive nails into the stiff cathartic spine, divine if this unseasoned cigar topiary agrees with its own everlasting te

SONS OF ITALY

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I am a good liar

Heartbreak Waiting To Happen

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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.

The Sleep of Trees (Three Parables), part 3

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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone

Foreign Film

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They are watching a movie about a man who cheats on his wife, whom he loves, and is so disconsolate that his wife eventually loses all patience and leaves him. They are at the point in the film where the man considers his many blunders as he walks…

Three Stories Of You

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There's a story of you who says to go on, to walk the room, to pretend to contemplate. Promises that if you lift your hand your head will follow. Assures you when your bones reignite there will be day, there will be night, and you'll know which is which. Don't worry about…

Descanso

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Lupe says stealing is bad whether it's from a Baptist or a Catholic.

Tinpot Love

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Under the tree of the one apple, the Tin Man waited for his Tin Woman. He wanted to ask her to become his Tin Wife.

Miss

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On Saturday mornings, by noon, the delivery car comes from Boston and unloads fresh bread and sandwiches, pork ribs and ground pork stuffed inside of breads and buns and banana leaves, bean shakes, and sticky rice desserts.

Killing Noise

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I ate a novel. I digested a film reel. I vomited poetry.

Lost and Found

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list: almond message oil almond sunset tea dark chocolate 80% dry rhubarb soda lavender bath oil musk candles red light bulb

Pieta

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Come home, my love, and live.

Heaps ain’t Enough

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"And I listened, too, sitting at the table with him with my palms on my chin and my fingers on my face ‘cause I love listening to my man talking about why he loves me."

You Take All

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so sassy so sassy so cool

Publishing Today

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A cartoon of my personal insight to publishing as I know it.

LOTUS

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Make cartography with your mouth...

Ginger

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I didn't tell her how deeply a terrible weakness for ginger haired people ran in our family, how fortunes had been lost only because of a red beard, a freckled shoulder of exquisite paleness, or a pink nipple.

Telephone

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It had been so long since the telephone had rung, he’d forgotten the sound.

The Understanding

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The young boy picks up a coin that has rolled to his feet. It is warm, too warm considering the cold air streaming around him.

Intolerable Impositions

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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."

The Bitterness of Butterfly Wings

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So I licked the Anise from my fingers.

How to Make a Baby

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Eat slowly. Wait. Do not bring reading material. Do not bring headphones. Avoid distractions.

Dog Days

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A forgotten sprinkler is going in a neglected flower garden, water overflowing the bent wood borders and flooding the ground on either side.

A Simple Explanation

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You are just another and I am only me. I give you full permission to be everything I don’t want you to be. In fact, I insist.

Elephant

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Urine is essence.

Tea with Mrs. Doyle

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I looked at it awhile waiting for it to cool. She said, "Ahh, go on! - Go on, go on.”