1570 0 0
|
Harris Tobiasharristob@gmail.comThe Alarm A terrible clanging in the middle of the night roused me from my bed. I put on some clothes and hurried into the street there to mingle with my bleary eyed neighbors. At first we thought it was a fire but there was…
|
157033
|
The night wrapped its arms around us as we drove west, taking the highway past Medford towards Philly. The kids were asleep in the backseat and we were both counting the mile markers, staring out the windows with quiet eyes. I listened to the drone of the…
|
156933
|
The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
|
156999
|
Requires one of those leaps.
|
156921
|
Librarians love me,
you want to know why?
I don’t dog-ear pages,
I don’t even try.
|
156965
|
I'm sitting on the B-line toward Park, and there is a woman with the same black bob as Mad TV's Miss Swan, and she is leaning the whole front of her body against the whole pole in front of me, and even though there is plenty of space around her, she is pressed up…
|
156921
|
A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
|
1569118
|
8) An exercise online calls for the first sentence on page 45 of the book nearest you as a suggested description of your love life. The book 9) nearest me still is _The Quarterly_, 1, spring 1987, that I have on my desk in preparing to write an essay.
|
156965
|
the names / she carried (within)
|
15693020
|
We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
|
156921
|
the Griot Grrrls stopped playing their distinctive brand of power progressive acoustic worldfunk at open-mics around campus
|
156974
|
I can take you away, away, away.
|
156932
|
“Emerald Leaf Borers, Dutch Elm Disease and Gypsy Moths blow through here like the Plagues of Egypt,” said Rafe, sipping from his glass of Parallel 44 wine. “You'd think we'd get more than a few days of good weather for all the parasites we feed.” …
|
156997
|
The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
|
156953
|
Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
|
156932
|
We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
|
156911
|
“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
|
15691410
|
Oh to be young and vigorous.
|
156842
|
The heat was different in the 90's Car rides played all the right tunes, and early, Saturday mornings echoed explosions of excitement, and neighborly visits Apartments; one beige body; filled our LA slum, street Sprinklers colored the hot…
|
156842
|
Looking with his ears, Hearing with his eyes, Not really mute, he simply didn't know how to speak.One word, then another string together,a crack spreads across an ice covered lake. Now there is an open channel, and his thoughts roil the…
|
1568103
|
Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
|
1568114
|
I have an appointment set for the day after next; you said you thought you might be firing blanks and then I feel a kick into my chest—two kicks, three, seven at least—my cat is going crazy at the stinky tom outside the window and the birds are waking, sc
|
15681212
|
Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
|
156876
|
She hadn’t died. She wasn’t a ghost. She wasn’t even invisible. She just wasn’t see-able.
|
156886
|
|
15681414
|
A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
|
156852
|
I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
|
156811
|
I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
|
156800
|
Do I feel good about any of that? Not really. But I seem to find myself asking over and over again, why should I care? That's something that's never happened before. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I kind of liked it.
|
156820
|
Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
|
