Most discussed stories

Lesson 38

19281928 views1414 comments33 favs

You have a house (plural, as in Spain)

Redeye Rabbit

18811881 views1414 comments77 favs

I knew it was just a matter of time...

In the Path of Mary

18551855 views1414 comments88 favs

She walks ahead, dropping matches as she goes. Grassland is consumed by flames and when I arrive all is wasted.

Shoot

14041404 views1414 comments1111 favs

Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.

The Gospel According to Teeny

19441944 views1414 comments1212 favs

Then I heard it -- a sound like an oboe being strangled. Teeny was farting onto the cement stoop through her jeans, a tripple flutter blast.

Passing Past

22252225 views1414 comments1414 favs

No one means to go that way, on an errand to the mall....

Illicit

24912491 views1414 comments99 favs

... a moth, a kiss. A silence.

3 Kids

19681968 views1414 comments1515 favs

There he was, naked and covered in green mud

Balloon Seller

17031703 views1414 comments88 favs

...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...

Small Change

19041904 views1414 comments1414 favs

Life seemed okay…for the most part.

Weight

16841684 views1414 comments77 favs

We flew./ In my dreams, I can fly.

Seasonality

12951295 views1414 comments99 favs

... and August's drought/ will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/ and amplify cicada song.

clouded

10631063 views1414 comments88 favs

a current forecast

Shits and Crazies- a Pas de Deux

15781578 views1414 comments55 favs

Anson Chi/ tried to kill my wife

Trees Today

19051905 views1414 comments1010 favs

are my only real friends. They don't seem to mind my shuffling down the dirty sidewalks without acknowledging their mere scraggly presences like friendly tombstones. They are growing their hair out again. I've noticed that much. We've got a…

Serving

17021702 views1414 comments77 favs

patience is....

The Haunted Coins

23312331 views1414 comments99 favs

(I woke once from a bad dream to throw them from the drawer, but my hands were so clammy, the coins stuck to my hand! I had to scrape them off my palm on the edge of the table.)

Forgive Me, Leonard Cohen

15531553 views1414 comments99 favs

There’s a price / on everything

The Photograph

38833883 views1414 comments1212 favs

But if he's been photographing her for almost thirty years, there must be close to 11,000 images. During the session, they don't speak. And, after so long, words are not really necessary.

Four from “Autobiographies”

15431543 views1414 comments66 favs

The white space beckons-/ a blank wall in a decrepit neighborhood-/ wishing to be decorated or defiled

Little Tech Puppies In the Artisan Beer Hall

16641664 views1414 comments88 favs

Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/ that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/ superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers

On the Bench (Matthew III)

16841684 views1414 comments77 favs

turn your face

Throwing Pencils

23202320 views1414 comments1010 favs

I can never tell if he’s drunk or using some sort of substance or if perhaps his brain just doesn’t fire at the pace that we have come to accept as normal.

Something Horrible Has Happened

16851685 views1414 comments1010 favs

The smart drivers know the signs/ and the back street ways around the wreck.

Divided

21472147 views1414 comments66 favs

Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.

CONFUSION

20772077 views1414 comments55 favs

She asks if I would like to join them.

Heart

16861686 views1414 comments1212 favs

Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.

Danse Macabre

16381638 views1414 comments99 favs

Each day, they trot the coiffed/ and painted cadavers across the stage.

She Used to Have Nails

48994899 views1414 comments1212 favs

...the job was easy, just pour and deliver, pour and deliver.

For the Wives

17201720 views1414 comments88 favs

She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…