1608 7 5
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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 …
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1608 13 6
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1608 15 13
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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1608 3 1
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I’m secretly hoping for a huge bouquet, a fruit basket, a pickle jar of urine in a lunch bag on my doorstep, even.
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1608 0 0
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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
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1608 6 4
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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea
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1607 8 8
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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1607 0 0
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“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
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1607 6 3
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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1607 7 4
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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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1607 16 10
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A figure left the building.
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1607 0 0
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Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
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1607 12 6
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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1607 4 1
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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1607 5 5
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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1607 12 2
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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1607 0 0
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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1607 11 8
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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…
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1607 2 1
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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.
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1607 4 1
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A tanka/haiku poem about grandma getting run over by a reindeer.
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1607 11 5
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“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog,
Lance.
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1607 4 4
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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1607 3 2
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Hope was beauty before I even knew what beauty was with her golden pigtails, brilliant blue eyes and an infectious smile — even after Jamie Delano flung his Frisbee, knocking out Hope’s two front teeth.
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1606 0 0
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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.
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1606 2 0
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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1606 10 7
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1606 1 1
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Directions: Match the stanza to the Beat icon:
A. William S. Burroughs
B. Peter Orlovsky
C. Jack Kerouac
D. Carl Solomon
E. Allen Ginsberg
F. Neal Cassidy
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1606 4 2
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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1606 6 5
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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1606 5 2
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“You done done sumpin’,” the old man guessed, “Sumpin’ bad...”
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