1299 5 0
|
Bitter the sun when it is in Hades
High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down
but the nitre keeps burning
So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin
Foreheads exhibit thought
though the eyes are crossed
and at night, butterflies i
|
1298 0 0
|
Perhaps she’s also a do-gooder. One of those socially conscious, change-the-world type girls complete with a never ending supply of life’s own contagious enthusiasm.
|
1298 2 3
|
The weather, mid-sixties now,
will take its toll on
this singular voice.
|
1298 0 0
|
Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…
|
1298 2 1
|
I remember taking you to see all these sexy movies because it really built up the passion in you. I loved what you did to me when we got back home after those movies. That’s when we were just trying out our dating wings.
I don’t know if you knew how
|
1298 2 0
|
As we follow the trail and things snap beneath our feet, I tell myself that the snapped things take pleasure, find purpose even, in the sounds they make with my soles.
|
1298 3 0
|
I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…
|
1298 11 9
|
|
1298 6 5
|
I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
|
1298 6 3
|
We call it the alley of the shadows, the low sunless concavity of earth between the stalks, the acrid scent of the ripened arrow-points.
|
1298 0 0
|
They are kind of cool though I’ll admit…pretty types with perfect angles and poise and judicial daddies and shade tree homes, holding their books preciously against their tight bodies as if they’re into academics or something.
|
1298 2 2
|
for Tracy ThornYou don't need a song about fixed stars, you needa reason to be glad stars are here. Themoon's always been around, but not always like the friend you want,until now. Don't throw it all away becauseyou are too sad to care. You've come into your own. Allthings…
|
1298 6 2
|
Of course, no one can control what goes on in an elevator.
|
1298 1 1
|
never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--
|
1298 0 0
|
After going to the garage and moving at least 4000 boxes of junk we found the coat rack. We wrestled it up the stairs to my room. I wasn't much help, but Dad was cool about it. I think he was just happy I liked the suit.
|
1298 7 7
|
often visit me in my room, so quietly, so suddenly, buzzing my head with wonderful, possible sentences. Sometimes I find they've been there radiating all along, children ready to burst out in a sneaky fit of laughter if I move just slightly…
|
1298 4 1
|
We call this game the end of the world...
|
1298 2 2
|
Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
|
1298 2 2
|
Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies...
|
1298 0 0
|
When the lore of the land could no longer hold the minds of men, they turned their eyes to places where they expected to find no other gaze.
|
1297 2 0
|
He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......
|
1297 7 5
|
of anything if that's the way you feel your love must go down, off its last nut before the big victimizing crash of the end of days and flowers. But watch out for thosethorn bushes that grow from forgotten holes in the ground.…
|
1297 4 4
|
when I take the time/now to remember/
you have become/a thousand page/memory book
|
1297 3 0
|
A kind of sucking darkness into
A kind of noir celebration of despair
|
1297 0 0
|
an island hidden in the sound holds treasure
|
1297 4 4
|
They pull up to the curbside and he jumps out
to shake the hands in that familiar men’s
grasp/shake they do when saluting each other.
If that isn’t his daughter it should be, the one
sitting in his car, with her door wide open.
|
1297 4 0
|
"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
|
1297 3 2
|
|
1297 5 2
|
lift my love and be lifted
|
1297 3 1
|
Last night, but not really night, I woke up to a huge clattering crash! I reached for my weapon (wouldn't you like to know) and jumped out of soft and cozy, holding myself in my best "I'm-not-afraid-of-you" stance.
|