1067 0 0
|
One morning she was out on her walk and happened to come near the creek. Amazed as she was by the landscape, she was unprepared for the creek to look dark. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, the trees budding and yet below, in the water, it seemed dar
|
1067 7 5
|
They hunger for new real estate/
and those resources underground
|
1067 2 2
|
I was born into a perpendicular world
I held Vertigo in my arms once
And gave her a good squeeze
That she just couldn’t get out of her head
Then she would follow me around the perimeter
Where my breath was being held
Against my will
Ah,
|
1067 11 9
|
It’ll all make sense when you're sitting on an éclair chaise longue by the morning pool of coffee.
|
1067 0 0
|
The smell of your chest, and the taste of your lips
as they touch mine
|
1067 9 8
|
I used to be so certain
about right and wrong.
About choices and their consequences.
About heaven and hell
and how there was
no room in between
no space in between
no point in between
(take that point how you will)
|
1067 0 0
|
|
1067 6 5
|
With whatever else physicists may learn . . . perhaps they will begin to see that the connections between the physical world and non-physical domains of existence have an explanatory power which has only barely been considered.
|
1067 2 2
|
Upon further investigation two soldiers were found
|
1067 2 1
|
He'd hug us against our wishes when we tried to get a better look at his cart, his odor a mix of sweet and sour and stink.
|
1067 8 9
|
When he saw me, he jumped faster and faster, wild like something rabid.
|
1067 0 0
|
When Prince Rainier III asked an expert whether there was a literature of Monaco, her research produced only a suggestive ode to a fig and a poem about a fart.
|
1067 0 0
|
demanded he give up muscatel art
|
1066 0 0
|
She shifts in her armchair, shadowed beneath the dark pitched roof, gently replaces her chipped white china teacup in its saucer. It's started again. It's how they go, their whisperings, egging younger children to climb the steps to her attic apartment, a
|
1066 9 6
|
Through feeling her life story,
I understood mine, more,
|
1066 2 2
|
We’d sometimes find my mother asleep in her chair outside her trailer at the nudist camp when we drove up. She loved her garden there, even with the rabbits eating her young tomato plants. She used to coax the bluebirds down to the railing of her trailer
|
1066 1 1
|
|
1066 1 3
|
One must learn to give the Bull the things/
it needs: space, grass and grain, his mates/
and offspring, and elude the things/
its momentary fury wants- your death
|
1066 1 1
|
Behind me are two doors. Each opens onto a room which is more event than space.
|
1066 4 4
|
It was a battered, creaky, rickety old thing, this wheelbarrow. It had two wooden handles with cracks running through the wood, a fat rubber wheel and a deep tray encrusted with the mud and plaster and grout that it had transported through decades of heavy use. Based on…
|
1066 5 4
|
—but night does not reduce me to sleep / the dragging minutes keep awake / the dark that only opens its deep . . .
|
1066 0 0
|
it always takes too long to figure it out
|
1065 3 3
|
Rocky looked iron-built, tall and lean, not round like April. Russian lawn ornament, I said, mistaking the thought as mine.
|
1065 1 1
|
As it was, she was on a mission to get back and either close the chapter or re- open it on her former lover. Something was curiously drawing her to him. She was frank with the man on the plane. He understood. When they deplaned on the tarmack in a snowsto
|
1065 4 3
|
We could act the anthropologist.
|
1065 4 0
|
For those in know know know there was hint of a wilderness Cadillac...
|
1065 1 2
|
“Where did this come from?” Greenblatt snapped as he pulled a pamphlet from his coat pocket with the words “Jews for Jesus” on it.
|
1065 1 0
|
“He’s a tough nut,” says CIA officer Marlon McGrath. “He says he’ll die a martyr rather than crack before we get to the Booster Club award for outstanding female athlete.”
|
1065 4 1
|
You will know the country for fences, for feces, for cows, or,
You will know the country for the smell of hay and manure blowing over the hills to you.
|
1065 3 1
|
Well, Bainz' dad didn't kill us for stealing his bomb because one of the drug addicts at my house was a cop. At least he said he was a cop, or knew a cop, or had something to do with the cops. I don't know for sure. I know he didn't look like a cop, at least he …
|