1502 8 5
|
collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
|
150132
|
... and the train pulls up and my shadow from yesterday steps off, and I'm standing on one leg balancing just like the weather between winter and spring, I hear a siren and my heart races, I'm about to step aboard when I hear footsteps behind me and two hands cover my eyes…
|
150155
|
beat them with fists and purses.
|
150185
|
It was by the well on one cold early spring morning
|
150176
|
you might as well be blind
|
150100
|
Jumping from roof to roof, Keiko and Rumiko remained quiet after hearing Mayumi’s story. They saw the shrine ahead but they knew they were going to run out of buildings to stay above.
|
150195
|
I fully intend to show Hamilton the delights of soft Oriental carpeting and a delicious new position I learned not long ago. It involves a silk scarf, a leather strap and some aromatic herbs.
|
1501136
|
It wasn't so much the softness of the bed that kept her from sleep, or the pungent bleach-scent of the unfamiliar sheets, but the lack of her clock's familiar tick, tick, tick. Or was it a missing heartbeat? Awake, she watched his chest. On the table, an empty pill …
|
150112
|
I have no confidence that you'll complete the task. Shit, you probably don't even understand it in the slightest.
|
150143
|
Don't throw earth on bones.
|
15011210
|
My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.
|
150132
|
How does a mixed couple come together in the Troubles?
|
15011410
|
In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
|
150121
|
He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
|
150110
|
Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
|
1501136
|
|
150197
|
MOSAIC Your eyes coal-rimmed, busted, burned by betrayal. You and I, knee to knuckle, skinny with disorders and blurred around our edges. Challenged by our experience and the ash of past-love dusting the grate, the state, the…
|
150132
|
The night we broke into Bron-yr-Aur it was too cold to make love. I said I wasn't horny anyway. You put your hand on my forehead: Are you ill?
|
150144
|
“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
|
150000
|
“Would you look at that one!” my father said.
“Who did she know?” my mother asked.
“Who did she blow?” my father said loudly, and burst out laughing. I laughed too, although I didn't know why.
My mother shot him one
|
150084
|
We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…
|
150044
|
He keeps saying it,
babbles the term like he knows what it means
and we wince and interject with mama,
mama,
mama,
|
1500133
|
—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
|
150088
|
His mother was a ballerina.
|
150053
|
"and I turned to you, at some joke we shared,
and saw winter ease its hand,"
|
15001212
|
a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
|
150087
|
Cat fight. I rush outside and swinging my trusty broom I charge the rolling yowling ball of black fur.
|
150042
|
THE man in the tent with the stick points to the chart on the wall and says to us all: the stats point to the end of the war by the end of the fall. A just war, not just oil. Just then Allah's shadow comes over the scene. He's here to stiffen his troops with some …
|
150033
|
Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
|
150061
|
I was quite alone in this small room with the tarp and the dying fire.
|
