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Snow fell against the windows casting shadows that danced like fireflies or flame—he couldn’t make out which for sure. He’d tumbled and bounced from balcony to balcony, the snow calming with the winds and gently falling, now.
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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“I feel like my bones are melting.” Her arms are wrapped around her body tightly, like she’s trying to hold herself together. She’s shaking; I can hear it with every breath she takes.
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It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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As I watched her sleep, I saw gentle frost and sun on crystal.
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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Perhaps nothing has never existed;/
perhaps something always has
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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It is a small life, circumscribed/
by debt and income, age and infirmity./
The Hidden Hand thrusts its middle finger/
high.
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If you wanted to retain the ownership of said works, then you should not have died.
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He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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He was a liability. I knew I had to ditch him.
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On beach trips with our families,
there were bumper cars, jet skis;
flash enjoyments,
beach-themed distractions.
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She'd still rest her fingers on your back, and her smile still lit the lantern of your soul.
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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However did we make it this far/
without murdering one another
as the other sleeps
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Burren-grey, the sky through sky lights
is cigarette ash smashed across July.
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Penny followed the woman into the warm, dark interior of her home, which smelled strongly of cumin and other familiar spices she couldn’t name. Penny noted that the tia’s hair had turned almost completely white and had grown very long since Penny had last
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Lake Berryessa, CALIFORNIA It was dusk on the 27th of September when the Stocky Man finished his work and trudged casually back across the…
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Some life in Rosco's walls. He listened with his dead wife Sonya's stethoscope: rustles and scratching, a collective heartbeat.“Vermin”, said Vlad, Rosco's neighbor. “Will take over if no kill.” He smiled with one tooth, urped some vodka. “I…
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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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