2050 8 3
|
Morning claims me from sleep before I can say noYou wake up instantly from your alarm clock's ringYou are bright, enthusiastic, ready to cooperateIt will be a good dayYou shower, dress and I prepare your breakfastEggs, soft, toast two ways, one with salmon cream cheese,One…
|
205032
|
Grand Dad was born in the time where men of honor were never too far when danger arose, like the phlegm and fevers of an oncoming plague.The oversized house felt stagnate and angry as he closed the heavy solid wooden front door behind him. There was an echo that made…
|
205000
|
The Sentinels flew low and through the woods. Carefully navigating their way around the trees, they heard the sound of birds chirping and frogs croaking in the morning.
|
204920
|
The Master of Sleep had lived alone for many years, so when his daughters first moved into his house he welcomed them, seemingly glad for their company...
|
204965
|
In my own case, before Ellen, of course there was someone else. She—well, she was someone who I felt as if I’d always known and always would. And I think she felt the same about me.
|
204943
|
She'd make a great catch in the rain. Because in the rain nothing moves. No cat girl of deep shade eyeliner. No saint of dark corners.
|
204900
|
Ai did not know what to do, nor say. She did not want Manami to suffer anymore than she already has.
|
204920
|
Left, I see parkland and cyclists and sun. Right: picnic blankets, naked men and lunchtime assignations.
|
204992
|
"There's a concert next month," Sherry said. "Why don't you come to that and I'll introduce you? Then we can go from there."
|
204993
|
I love how you touch me, your hands warm on my shape...
|
20482216
|
My mother used to say she'll be just like you and you‘ll deserve it. I was a Punk Rocker. A rebel. Emily worries about things like grades and sports. She's on the soccer team. I got stoned under the bleachers. Emily, is a good kid. …
|
204865
|
The tapestry of time gets another stitch.
The countdown clock rolls forward.
The whole crazy picture gets a little bit
clearer.
|
204833
|
Describe how like or unlike a vagina a peach pit is, using no anatomical words.
|
204821
|
Dog time is water. Incidents bob near the surface, fall into whirlpools, sink or drift with the flow.
|
2048128
|
Two-way conversation with God.
|
20481611
|
In this episode the children in the classroom will all wear boxes over their heads and will search the room with their hands. Their hands will be hands that have been reconnected. Their hands will wear seams as sleeves and curse in red. The hands that…
|
204811
|
WIFE (calling back from kitchen): "Dick Cheney's penis!"
|
204787
|
His mouth is a flesh cave where a grizzly slumbers and winter is the blank page of my face.
|
204799
|
I'm not interested in her that way.
|
204710
|
Daddy? Yes, hun. What do you think about life? Did you ask your mother? I'm asking you. (lowers newspaper) Well, (squinting eyes) life gives you so much pumpkin. ! and (like a whip) and..? (brows almost touching the hairline)…
|
204743
|
What you may see initially could be only half the poem. The rest is hidden.
|
2047104
|
Ma tells me not to put a tampon between my legs. For fear of cotton fornication.
|
2047169
|
Sometimes you can't sleep.
|
2047107
|
Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
|
2047138
|
I had been in bed for a couple of days and by this I mean sleeping for fifteen or sixteen hours at a time. I don’t think that I believed in God anymore. I no longer knew how to stay awake.
|
2047119
|
They kiss, opening their mouths into a smile, sharing a secret. Their kiss is so intimate. I blush, and look away embarrassed and a little aroused.
|
204722
|
There are worse things than getting your ass kicked by a 12 year old Puerto Rican kid. This was exactly my thinking as he stood over me, his pre-pubescent screams sounding like a baby Bruce Lee, preparing to finish me off.
|
204686
|
Sal, a finder of misplaced objects notices the sunglasses, flip flops and boxers left on the pathway heading to the beach. They are his gifts today, so gallant is he of these ‘strays’ seeking ownership. He tries the glasses on first and feels dizzy.
|
204694
|
America has given birth to many great poets--Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali--but why should talented people have all the fun?
|
204611
|
an old Black woman, a sequined black cap poised on the left of her crown of black infused gray hair. A gray wool shawl that seemed to perfectly match her hair's color wrapped her all the way down to her hips, where a battered pair of blue jeans rested
|
