1321 6 4
|
Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
|
132064
|
I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep
|
132053
|
It's 2am. The wind is moving at speed, whipping gently the tree branches, and their leaves rustle simultaneously to create a audible sound, like hands flipping through sheets of paper, or that feeling you get on your fingertips when going across a textured surface. I'm…
|
1320105
|
an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
|
132000
|
Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
|
132000
|
I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.
|
132021
|
Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
|
132041
|
Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.
|
132032
|
The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
|
132000
|
Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
|
1320128
|
We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
|
132053
|
Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
|
132000
|
Behind the bellicose façade lay a soft, compassionate soul. He sat within a swirl of rosy twilight hues, buoyed by the gently creeping tide. A dark wall approached and he mechanically spun and began stroking into the glassy canvas of light and ocean that lay between him…
|
132090
|
Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
|
1320107
|
and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
|
132043
|
"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."
|
132021
|
Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
|
132065
|
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.
|
132022
|
|
131910
|
The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
|
131932
|
Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
|
131922
|
At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
|
131910
|
the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
|
131965
|
I know someone in need of healing.
|
131954
|
. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
|
131998
|
6. to register for the draft
|
131932
|
sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
|
131995
|
He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
|
131932
|
A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
|
1319125
|
Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
|
