1479 2 1
|
|
1479 5 4
|
still curious of the taste of eggs
finally licking my plate
|
1479 6 4
|
They made posters and hung them everywhere. With the passing days she became the photograph at its center: hair always in the same ponytail; always with the same smile
|
1479 10 2
|
|
1479 5 5
|
Style Shifts “Oh, yes, my cousin. We were rude boys until the armed gangs started to gather. Used to be we could pass a night driving, playing our songs, acting tough. Yeah. We'd mouth off, flash some teeth, spark some anger when we felt like it. We…
|
1479 10 3
|
I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …
|
1479 6 5
|
I know someone in need of healing.
|
1479 8 8
|
You've had some truly awful shit pumped into your brains for years at a time now. The practice started a long time ago. It's not always your fault. The only lasting way to get it out of your head is to go and figure out exactly where…
|
1479 4 0
|
Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
|
1479 5 5
|
“If your work is good you will get published. Just keep at it."
|
1479 5 4
|
In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
|
1479 5 5
|
There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
|
1479 6 1
|
I would like to go back (with spade, pick, soft bristles), and sift through time and layers, brush away the intervening years, and find: the tooth, knocked out by my then best friend, when we were seven, careening downhill in my father's wheelbarrow on Boscobel…
|
1479 7 2
|
This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
|
1479 11 6
|
I suppose it was inevitable, This crashing of souls, This recognition of possibility to create. If we were younger, We would make a baby, The ultimate act of faith. Now it has to be something else, Nothing to force a track with night feedings, …
|
1479 0 0
|
My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
|
1478 10 11
|
I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
|
1478 9 5
|
I recalled the one night stand I'd had with the girl one balmy summer night in Minneapolis. We lay on my bed in the moonlight, and I touched the nipples of her tiny breasts with the thumb and pinkie of one hand.
|
1478 3 3
|
For me, it was that kind of moment. I got to come back. I had been here before and now, well now, I could come back. I had a chance to do it all again, bigger, better and well, just better. I hoped I could remember all that I learned the first time.
|
1478 0 0
|
When He had built the Universe, there was no greater joy in putting it together. The angels themselves were perfect constructs of concept and design, embodiment of breathing principle over particle waves. They each had their purpose; each mortar or a supp
|
1478 3 2
|
Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
|
1478 2 2
|
I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
|
1478 0 0
|
Alysia’s eyes turned to Megumi where her sister nodded. Alysia took a deep breath and stepped back. There was a moment’s hesitation, but she felt Megumi’s hand gripping her wrist.
|
1478 3 2
|
Sirens wake me, screaming warnings in the dark.
|
1478 5 4
|
Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…
|
1478 7 4
|
the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
|
1478 2 0
|
Each had jostled and laboured for his or her place upon the blunt outcrop, in the cold persistent darkness, where the outcrop was merely something that had fallen and not quite been washed away.
|
1478 2 2
|
My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
|
1478 1 1
|
There was no need to drive. She could travel ten miles in ten minutes. She merely had to be careful not to step on any cars or trucks.
|
1478 6 5
|
It sits up tall on its hind legs to take in all of whatever this is, big and bluer than the sky, death's own taxicab parked on its doorstep.
|