1492 1 1
|
For example, I never noticed that the moon had eyelashes, not until tonight. You said you couldn’t really see that, not at all. You preferred the fact that the word “lunatic” sounded like an attic on the moon...
|
149265
|
A human being is here. He doesn't disappear
|
1492118
|
Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
|
149267
|
The dead girl was his niece’s daughter. Only thirteen years old.
|
149231
|
She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
|
149254
|
I can trust you with my secrets, can’t I?
|
149244
|
It was far away and I don't know how we arrived. There were people about that were involved in getting boats into the water or else playing sports games atop green hills. They told me I should go out in a boat with this guy and that he would take me around the island. I…
|
149200
|
Try and put my bones back in
|
149231
|
I once dreamed of taking a trip to Northumbria with a lover and reading the poem together on the fells.
|
149256
|
In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
|
14921511
|
My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
|
149210
|
One day over a hardscrabble dinner of gristly beef and lumpy mashed potatoes, his uncle looked up at him and said, “Kee-rist, boy, school’s gonna start any day now. And winter ain’t far behind. I can’t keep you here. We gotta figure out something for you.
|
1492106
|
Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
|
149264
|
The rocks were pillows around her shorn head, the crimson stream running from her ears the only sign she had not chosen to lay down on them. Behind us, the rockface stood stoic; below us, the water lapped our feet.She held my hand in hers, giving me succor as I…
|
149121
|
Even at five years old, I could tell that Eloise was haunted by ghosts that shook her core, leaving her dangling and seeking stability in slowly repeating her compulsive routines.
|
149133
|
Wishing he holds you all night, unshaven chin/between your breasts.
|
149122
|
"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
|
149133
|
Fragment’s of ignorance strewn by a haphazard hand
|
149100
|
I got kicked out of a soup and salad place last week for trying to buy a large soda so I could sit and eat my sack lunch there while I read “Love’s Desperate Creatures” by Dorothy Danville. Have you read it? Its great. I’ll give it to you when I’m done
|
149132
|
Bubbling from the hairline cracks in the glossy pavement of the new Einkaufszentrum in the town of Dachau oozes a mysterious thick red substance. Not blood, the mayor insists despite chemical analyses. And keep it quiet. Just…
|
149133
|
It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
|
1491105
|
Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
|
149166
|
|
14911513
|
Neither/
evergreen nor exactly deciduous./
And soon, a yellow residue of pollen/
smearing hoods and windshields
|
149175
|
Everything conspires to kill you:
|
1490106
|
“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
|
149084
|
In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
|
149021
|
these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
|
149021
|
Up ahead I saw clusters of people standing silently under the trees. They seemed to be just waiting there. More than 100 people lined up in the cold and dark, not moving.
|
149021
|
son a superfly/alligator shoe clad/networking man/working a beeper and flip phone/twisting blueberry spliffs/on ma's porch
|
