1646 5 4
|
Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
|
164555
|
I guess you’re gone now
That’s okay
I guess I can live with my own ghosts
I had no idea
What it meant
But now I do
It meant I was standing
At the end of everything
And did not know it
|
164500
|
Jaume jumped up from the bar, a wide smile across his face. He hugged his old friend and planted a kiss on his wife's cheeks. He was buzzing from the chance encounter, marveling how life had brought them together after all these years. There had to be a r
|
164550
|
|
164565
|
She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
|
164511
|
After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
|
164522
|
He does not read what he’s giving them permission to do to him, just signs the release.
|
16451811
|
For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
|
164500
|
"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
|
16451211
|
The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
|
164530
|
white-gray mounds persist
|
16451312
|
Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
|
1645137
|
Can we survive our Y chromosome?
|
164542
|
A is a hole in the series of letters, each of which is also a hole in the series of letters.
|
1645105
|
moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
|
16441010
|
As if to ask if I'm okay, as if to ask aren't we the same two on this wet December morning as ever, as yesterday, a month ago even, she shoots me a look as I stand by the bed, then her sane mild brown eyes…
|
164453
|
Little mercy, ten fingers, ten toes.
|
164400
|
Normally, Aidan looked like a guy. A highly feminine guy, but still a guy. He wore his hair in a buzz cut (a turn on of mine), wore tight clothes, worked out so he had a bit of muscle, but nothing over the top. And he was my guy.
|
164432
|
|
1644126
|
Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
|
164477
|
I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses
|
164421
|
She picked the fish out of the box leaving a pool of mucus and blood slowly congealing on the shelf and dripped it toward the kitchen table. Outside the wind lashed the tops of the poplar trees together and rain sprayed from the barn roof opposite.
|
1644138
|
She bought a dog with short legs to make her own legs look longer.
|
164421
|
You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
|
164472
|
"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
|
164475
|
Beneath an opal moon, the open field and wilderness across it look immersed in varying shades of blue. A strong night howler blows across a little girl's face as she walks the field as if in a trance; her whole visage framed against the backdrop of this very act …
|
1644136
|
|
164494
|
I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
|
164400
|
Only early June, but the heat feels like August. Eleanor and Shelby sit on the front steps of the old Victorian-style house in downtown Los Angeles, drinking homemade margaritas and watching the daylight drain away to dusk. Shelby slaps a mosquito away fr
|
164310
|
At last one of the men on the line bowed his head in a silent prayer for deliverance from what was about to come, then lifted his head and shouted loudly for his fellows to charge.
|
