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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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One must be drenched in words.
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Your faded presence in sepia dream returns, firelight whispers and vanilla scented ash. We were a beautiful knot: sinew and hemp, burlap and magnolia petal, concrete and vapor. Gray kisses hovered overhead, misty…
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The pear is a bruise. Feels like desperation in the light, it looks soft and blue. She wants to touch it and doesn’t want to. How the blood gathers under the blue and the body grows tender. Swells. Slowly.
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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Phil doesn’t know anything. He thinks his truck is possessed by his dead mother.
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The White House released only a short-form pedigree certificate, which “breeders” claim bears signs of alteration. “The ‘K’ in the middle of ‘AKC’ is longer than the other letters, like an El Greco on an acid trip.”
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Walking to Colorado? He doesn't have that kind of time.
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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The day you came home, after three extended tours in Afghanistan, I wanted to welcome you at the bus station, but I was afraid you'd attach yourself to me again.
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…
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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
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A group of nuns arrived in the middle of my first night at Hinsdale Hospital. I guess I must have dozed off when this odd noise, like curtains being moved, woke me up. At first I couldn't make out what that rustling sound was in the hallway outside my doo
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She caretakes, he takes care
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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There is a feeling in my hands,
fingers,
a restive, potential energy,
drawing inward, reaching
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He remembered waking up on those lazy summer days hearing the sad song of mourning doves.
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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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