1052 0 0
|
Light seen as sunlight through a Japanese shade
Red through many of their mouths, and often their hair
but also spots of a duller red on the back of this
gentleman's coat and the back of his head
The woman stares at him without smiling
from thre
|
1051 2 1
|
As the patter of our passing feet fades.
|
1051 3 1
|
I can still see us sitting, somewhere (was it in a café?) imagining what it would be like if our mutual faces blended into the future (the waiters posing as in a Manet painting.) Putting our bones together, our broad features, Bohemia and Sweden.
Yo
|
1051 0 0
|
Remote notary publics, or "remotaries" for short, are finding themselves increasingly busy as hikers and climbers seek help by cell phone or personal digital assistants from mountain peaks and white-water rafting trips.
|
1051 4 2
|
the echo of the hull's first contact with the water will pull the past through the present and the present into the past.
|
1051 0 0
|
TimeDoesnt existWe're told it existThe sun rises and fallAnd people exist for the eight Hour dayBut time does not existHuman beings put TIME in their lives To give it order Most people always seem to be looking for order!!Amidst the chaosIt goes very fast for someVery slow…
|
1051 4 4
|
So the subtle shadow settles onto perfect marble
on the floor of the ocean
when the sunlight blooms over space and time
but only in the near future
as it has always been
|
1051 3 2
|
“Your family, that family is crazy, everyone of them hush hush, tweet tweet, a little screw loose – or a bird, what kind of bird they got there?”
|
1050 6 5
|
It was the early 80's My students carried / guns.
|
1050 3 3
|
“Hey! You can’t be
whistling on Greyhound,”
the bus driver said,
looking up
in the rearview mirror.
|
1050 1 1
|
|
1050 1 1
|
the wiggly word / floats toward the crowd
|
1050 4 2
|
To be free of pain. Is that what we all want?
|
1050 0 0
|
Muslim factions are getting a helping hand to bridge the gap that has divided Shiites from Sunnis since Mohammed died--a new version of the Peace Corps that uses recreational metal detection to build friendship.
|
1050 10 5
|
"All he wants to do is watch the Hallmark Channel"
|
1050 4 2
|
First, he wrote it in a patch of new, wet cement one night at the intersection, for everyone to see, “Tad Loves Kimberley.” Maybe they were still in high school, or one of them worked at the café on the corner, and the other at the ice cream shop. Then
|
1049 0 0
|
Weeds, schist, an Artesian well: élan in a heavenly forge. Sniffling goats, a mossy cairn. A portal divides the void. There is a human hand here below the crumbling parapet. The crotch of time A bridge between…
|
1049 9 0
|
...it didn’t take much to just toss it aside and muster up some fresh bravado.
|
1049 2 2
|
There is only me and the crooked pavement that leads to your dim tower.
|
1049 5 4
|
No one is going to find us. And even if they did it's just a play someone wrote with you in mind as the lead. No one is going to find us. I could have told you this but I didn't want to spoil your newfound fun. No one is going to find us. The funny…
|
1049 3 1
|
He consumed the key lime pie, while wearing a lime-green sports bra.
|
1049 5 1
|
But of course, I didn’t get the grant, so my day job in communications at Katzenfeld continued. It was the first job I got out of college. I had been there for over a year and my salary was less than my rent and student loans combined, so I had to keep my
|
1049 8 9
|
I spend my time sitting on the back step—poison oak reddening my arm—under the eaves, waiting to escape.
|
1049 12 5
|
That some adults believed the drill would save/
us from the blast of fusioned hydrogen//
amused us as we quietly curled along
|
1048 2 0
|
I remember driving to New York City the summer of 1964, just before I met you. That was the very first time I ever smoked a joint. In those days it was happy dope. We got high and everything seemed so funny! Those were the days!
I drove into the city
|
1048 3 0
|
“Hello, I’m Marlene, and this is April,” says the older of two women. Both Marlene and April wear ankle length dresses. The name Hester Prynne flashes through my mind.
|
1048 4 2
|
“Snobs,” our head housekeeper Denise called them in her deep voice, while peering out from under her glasses at me.
|
1048 5 5
|
"Where've you been?" the image in the mirror asked. "I haven't seen you since yesterday," she said.
"Yeah, I miss you too," he said.
|
1048 0 0
|
Hold my heart the child in your arms
The roses of April blooming,
I bend down before you cracked and broke
Spilled out like albumin.
|
1048 2 0
|
Gee but it’s great after being out late,
Walking my lobster back home.
There’s little risk that she’ll turn into bisque,
Walking my lobster back home.
|