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Sanguine

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Gripping the sink, head bowed, I let the blood gather on the rim of my nose, pooling for a moment, before its fleeting journey towards the basin.

maybe, in winter

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I will wrap up in quilts that still smell of summer sun

Your Guide to a WASP Bar Mitzvah

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“The first thing you must remember,” Polly tells the Levensons, “is that every penny you spend on your guests is that much less you can spend on your horses.”

Weed Fire

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Wind was a sorry excuse for force

Ways of Seeing: Carracci

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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci

Seeds of Summer

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To Christine, Whom I Loved Because Another Would

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She was from Tennessee, with advantages over me. An upbringing surrounded by books and sensitivity.

Model Home

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In the living room of a model home, Mr. Jorgensen lived. He was a mannequin. He spent his days in display windows. He spent his commutes displaying the latest model cars.

Stellar

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After our first kiss, a team of scientists scrubbed away the cancer of your lipstick.

(give me a real moment with a living god and I’ll go all the way)

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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par

Echo

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When the poet loves,/ I said, quoting the poet,/ he loves himself.

A Drowning

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This is the record of a drowning.

Perfect Lady

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I want to write a story about a woman who lies to men about her height.

All Wet

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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears

Virgo

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I said he was cold. I said I like cold.

The memories lived in the house

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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation

If. You. Speak.

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The one at dusk is not the one you met this morning. That one's gone like a head in the window.

Musica

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A sizzling as skin and sinew melt, fall away. "Scream if you need to scream, child." And I scream, and her song gains strength. The warmth of her around me. It is time.

Mating for Life

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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.

In an Irish pub with a lot of oiled wood

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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”

Path

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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree

Matchbox Car

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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.

Damaged Goods

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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned wishing similar treatment.

Meticulous

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Have you measured the cups, the conveyors' yield? Do you know the span? I am the LORD your God, she murmured.

The Metaphysics of Cake

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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.

Jack Noodle

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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something - I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee

Ordinary Fruit

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I was insufficiently abused as a child.

Star Light, Star Bright

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I am experience and information// at a small but irredeemable remove.

Finger Lost Finger Found

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Little Roy Farrell'd taken a bite of his fourth grade teacher's ear as she bent close to help him sound out the word “grace.” Doc Felter had sewn most of teacher's ear back on, but by seventh grade Roy still couldn't read and never understood that he'd in

Interior: Classroom

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No girl hits hard enough.