1233 2 1
|
I saw blood. The walls of the bar were completely covered in red shag carpeting. Had I been thrown back in time to the Seventies? It felt as if I had entered Hell itself. No, this was not Hell. This was the Aryan-Brotherhood's version of the movie Shaft. I…
|
123354
|
At night, we’d sleep in our usual spots on the edge of the bed - Becca on the left, me on the right with Hanna in the middle as before the accident.
|
123310
|
Lately, instead of the images of dreams waking me up, as has always been the case, it is sounds that jolt me awake. The thumps and roars and slithering of creatures unseen. The ghosts that slam cupboards shut. The apparitions of robbers breaking down the front door:…
|
12331510
|
No canopic jars and fine Egyptian cotton.
|
123321
|
. . . I just didn’t think to call the mortician from the phone outside the grocer’s store, how gauche that would have sounded to any passers-by, a call to a mortuary from outside a grocer’s store!
|
1233185
|
another paper saving 55er
|
123331
|
It was New Year's Day. My cousin and I were having coffee. It was about ten at night. We were outside the establishment. She said: "Sometimes I think you're not happy. I see it in you."
|
123243
|
Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.
|
123266
|
They shoot up through the soles of their feet
once the veins in their arms are all used up.
They shoot up in their necks
like the cows on the African Savannah
|
1232159
|
Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
|
123276
|
I feel a hand on my leg, and look down to see the little girl touching the horse on my ankle.
|
123221
|
The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
|
123271
|
The new poetry
comes in shining
metal boxes
covered in glass
so you can peer in.
|
123201
|
She excelled at plowing forward. He excelled at staying in one place. Eventually the distances got too great and she put an ocean between them.
|
123284
|
|
123222
|
It didn't matter if they burned or not.
|
123274
|
|
123242
|
And in the dark caves a new secret, hidden from flyby probes and the imagination of men. In these new caves, names for the loved ones, Bradbury, Clarke, Rover
|
123288
|
Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
|
123200
|
|
123200
|
“Honorable condominium association members,” the leader begins. “I apologize for not having a PowerPoint slide show tonight, but me and my muchachos travel light.”
|
123242
|
Up to the loft we went, shedding clothes all the way. No one is home, but the place smells like the fresh cookies my mom had made before she left. It's dark and my lips hit his…
|
123222
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
|
123111
|
I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…
|
123152
|
Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.
|
123111
|
Lover’s leap to a bank of smooth shale/
Where I sat drinking beer that past summer/watching a group of hard shell Baptists/line up to be saved in it’s muddy waters
|
123151
|
no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
|
123142
|
The cell was crowded, barely enough room to swing a cat.
|
123180
|
Despite kryptonite not actually existing it became possible to buy, for 300 dollars, pieces of kryptonite on eBay. Personal protection, the sales pitch said. The pieces of kryptonite looked suspiciously like green plastic.
|
123121
|
Every spring, outside on the back deck, my mother and I have the same talk about how time flies, and she always waves her hand in the air as if swatting at a fly, but there's never anything there. She thinks the lilies will live all summer spread like a rainbow,…
|
