1129 1 1
|
We’ve been married for 24.1667 years now and–well–my wife was starting to remind me of a public building. The Registry of Motor Vehicles, to be precise.
|
112900
|
All Karin did was watch from the street. No movement. No reaction. She just watched.
|
112953
|
perhaps because it knows that time’s a solvent/
and dissolves all things in time.
|
112964
|
as you are, there's a big floating arm that separates both of us from each other. Widening, like a river, it touches us together often, but still keeps us drifting apart. The banks of your new life have different weeds and flowers…
|
112932
|
"The editors at Travel & Leisure are more interested in perks from advertisers than the survival of the human race.”
|
112922
|
|
112874
|
not in the interest of verisimilitude/
for there's plenty of that in each day already/
as trajectories interrupt other trajectories
|
112800
|
They were an interesting young couple. Tom was a big man with rugged features, though not handsome. His face was deeply pock-marked with the scars that are sometimes left over from a terrible bout with adolescent acne. His wife – though I was never cert
|
112820
|
|
112886
|
Yet tenderness resided here
among the canvases,
the tubes of paint, brushes, and candle wax;
the splatters of discarded ideas.
We made love the way people said prayers
|
112834
|
...the room was filled
with a brightness
and a breeze,
making you think
you were up in
the clouds.
|
112820
|
Still worried. I could use some more hope in my oatmeal.
|
112800
|
I’ll give you a pair of grey cement pumps
then into the river, your body I’ll dump.
|
112821
|
When gratitude on lovers' lips rings false/ As flattery by courtly sycophants,/ Take care to well distinguish gold from dross/ So as to gild gladder remembrances.
|
112820
|
The president snapped awake at three AM. He realized he was a serial killer. Highly trained and equipped killers on his orders were summarily murdering thousands of raggedly dressed people in the name of Democracy.
|
112882
|
|
112800
|
“Stay away from fad fruits and vegetables like endive, pomegranates and kiwis,” his father said. “Stick with something that people need, something that will last–parsley.”
|
112700
|
exiled from hell where no torture could touch you to a cloud in heaven where no…
|
112722
|
Random Access
Hundred Dollar Bill
Burning Question
The Black Truffles
Open John
Queasy Sister
Tortoise and the Hair
Duck Tail and the Wrap
Stiff Resistance
Knee Jerk Reaction
Tough Cookie
Bar Code and the Illusion
Erosion
Eroti
|
112743
|
We could act the anthropologist.
|
112731
|
The past follows, battered, bruised, always behind
|
112732
|
Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
|
112700
|
This is what you have to do to keep the unruly parts of your brain from open revolt.
|
112732
|
“She said I hurt her and my father, the both of them.”
Rose patted her round belly, carried high and in front, likely a boy. “I can see that.”
|
112710
|
We had been on the way to the church when we found them. The handkerchief in my breast pocket was folded just so and I'd tried to recreate the perfect ribbon in Ashley's hair, …
|
112700
|
our house gives him a cold again
|
112730
|
Hole #1 – Loop-de-Loop
A piece of metal curved into a loop like a curlicue off-ramp. Jake and I step up to the Golf-O-Rama mat like accidental twins. My ball is half blue and half orange, like a gas station freebie. The old man at the desk said I
|
112700
|
It was mostly accidental.
|
112721
|
“Well, of course I served in the CIA . . . everybody did, back then!” he says with a grin. “Two goddamn bloody well years . . . I was a regular Nayland Smith, I tell you. …
|
112741
|
I remember saying, I’ll tell you what I think, if you tell me even one of your little secrets, okay? Whoa! A little too much information there, Wolfie, or Pharaoh, or whatever your name is now.
I remember you with the same beard (just a different co
|
