98055
|
They come to wipe themselves from my memory, but that, of course, is impossible. In this place, we are bound together, the long line of men who have killed me, and I.
|
98055
|
They’ve deduced she’s still of sound mind and body. What do they know?
|
98074
|
The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
|
98040
|
She had endured three years of abuse for those hot, fleeting moments of tenderness—just enough warmth to keep her second-guessing the bitter frost. Now the ring promised a lifetime of biting back her pain.
|
98055
|
Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
|
98084
|
We may think about so many things and thoughts about rain. We may think about where it is going, where it comes from.
|
98041
|
There are times when she is heavy and times when she is light.
|
98010
|
"The Genius has since abandoned all hope of seeing full remission of the Great Descending Haze in his lifetime."
|
97900
|
“A lot of kids–granted, kids who aren’t too bright–will choose a school because of its mascot, and that’s what Chipper is all about,” he says.
|
97931
|
a random sticker that says, Repent Sinner, and a club lineup snaking around the corner and sirens and that urine smell at alley's mouth
|
97941
|
Endless. I find this story.Beginning. To walk.Repeating. Repeating.The Memory. Of snow.Amsterdam. Rivers narrow.Hearts. Divide.Hands. Emboldened.Patronizing. Unpatriotic.Semblance. House held open.Forging. The ties…
|
97901
|
It looks like Arizona, like a desert with secrets. The bed unfolded and she was being good today. She would be good, no matter how he moved and laughed she would be a lady. The names of the flowers escaped her, flowers she'd always known. All she saw were waterlilies.…
|
97954
|
I wrapped my arms around each of them
ran my hands over their face, and kissed
their lips. "Why are they dreaming?" I asked.
|
97921
|
I’ll bet
You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy
And your world fell out from under you
|
97900
|
a white rabbit with a dirty monocle and a straw hat regarded marsha from the grass at the edge of the mud.
|
97940
|
He couldn’t dredge up a single memory about the sex.
|
979158
|
i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
|
97933
|
I’m well aware of the shadow stalking just to my left, her mannish voice flirting with my sensibilities.
|
97920
|
Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.
|
97942
|
That morning in the driving rain a sequence of automobiles appeared on the streets in the region with headlights in the form of television monitors
|
97900
|
"I want more grandchildren to spoil," the woman said. Will took a swig of beer at such moments. Maxine only answered with “someday” and looked over toward her husband. She knew it was his fault, didn’t really know why, but blamed him anyway.
|
97900
|
All I know about the futureis that every one alwaysgets to exactly where they are.
|
979106
|
Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
|
97940
|
Green hands
wave
in freezing water.
|
97942
|
whatever weaknesses you displayed//
as empathetic human fellow traveler,/
your command of English survives you,//
on into the last echoes of the human/
once we’re gone.
|
97811
|
In the sides of mountains the rivers rush through and who would stop them as they gain a hold on the world? For silences they keep just then, as if from a larger wisdom and different clock. Pink moons and funny coins with the heads of lions and lambs, and the quarter…
|
97845
|
Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?
|
97811
|
Charley carried the corpse over to the dinghy and tossed it into the pool of rain water collected inside. The headless snake swerved through the water, oblivious to its fate, powered perhaps by exposed nerves and muscle memory.
|
97811
|
On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
|
97852
|
Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.
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