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I'll always remember those warm, weekend twilights on the beach after the frolic of the waves seemed to flatten with the impending dusk, sending the surfers home and, after the bait was spent, sending the surfcasters away, I'd claim a square of sand as my stage,…
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and still every time I walked up there - so it can't be the cycling - I was nervous I would do it wrong
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the worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/who would slay was slain.
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I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
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Something like: Answers to questions you might not yet have?
[Answers we will try hard not to provide]
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The mannequin’s blind eyes, open, green, serene,
Look away from the cross, her hand
Against our crotch, against
Our suffering, our agony of being
Alive and beating warm.
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I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/
for a moment a shower of my own world’s/
prismatics.
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Whisper salutations to your irises
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I guess you felt more comfortable holding your Moby Dick
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The thrum and the thrust//
have beaten conviviality out of me.
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What can I offer you, White Moon?This full night lays black before your stoic assent—and Ibreathe my final breath, frantic—for you. I wait, damned,a bestial lover in the broken dark of the variety market, whisperinga word of forgiveness to an empty window. I…
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1. The Grizzlies met with the other forest animals for a meeting about voting rights. I was there too, you know, to prevent chaos or something. 2. Mom didn't like it when I took in a …
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Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears. It is not. It's because of them.
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it’s okay, you can come inside me
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We went driving on Sundays.
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?
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For years, Nina lived in an apartment with furniture that was silver or clear or metallic, she could see her reflection in every surface. She had an enormous television that took up one entire wall of the small living room. She and Anna and Desmond, Nina's downstairs …
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" No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."--T.S. EliotI think, okay now I know, the poem's starting to wear off. But I'm alive, at least…
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But you're everywhere, how can I move on? It's so easy for people to say, Get over it, the ‘it' being the smell of your skin, your smile, the taste of your lips, always sweet and salty, like a carnival treat. Remember that neon night when we knew it was over, how we…
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This time is different. The dream doesn’t continue with endless walking.
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-That’s more like it. He released Ben and holstered his gun under his leather jacket.
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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My toes curled together under the pathetic rag of a bedsheet, the frost creeping in through the two-inch deformity of the window on the left wall. I was tempted to sneak a glance at them to insure that they weren't black, but then decided that I'd…
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You could hear her coming from a long way off
like she kept trying to catch her breath,
like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones.
But it was laughter, always laughter that kept on
filling up her belly from the inside
and she was
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby
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Azure analyzed her surroundings. There were potted plants along the walls. It reminded her of the dormitories at Memorial Academy. Each room had a number.
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--small chin, timid mouth, frail nose, weak narrow-set eyes--
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