2054 7 2
|
A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
|
205433
|
Marie shrugs. “Maybe she’s just late. Come on, let's wait by the jungle gym.” She runs over and starts climbing. The jungle gym is closest to the path that goes into the woods and down into the canyon. She has to get him into the woods somehow.
|
205453
|
She wants her mother back and all I can give her is this—over and over. She doesn't want my mouth, wants no kissing anywhere even. Just this. Like this—quiet and rough. Quiet because her stepfather is napping in the bedroom next to…
|
205420
|
I made my way quietly out back and sat in Helga’s whitewashed porch swing, listening to the first faint sounds of big band music drift out of Helga’s open windows and into the cooling summer air. The darkness was moving in slow from the east, interrup
|
205421
|
A pale face was illuminated by the street light. A voice rasped, “Charlie?”
“Do I know you?”
“It's Bill.”
The side of his little brother's thin face
|
2053125
|
The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
|
205341
|
I'm delighted to report that I've come up with my own school of thought. It's called, "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."
|
205399
|
What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
|
20532514
|
Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
|
205366
|
Driving up to the Palisades after 9/11 for a meteor shower
|
205334
|
Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
|
205200
|
Soft voices in private, in the street,
city noise violence disappears
she blinks her eyelids
and I can hear the lashes
intertwine and pull clear.
|
2052247
|
I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
|
205221
|
“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …
|
205200
|
But there, up the street, just coming into the corner of the window, someone was in the middle of the road. Walking literally down the middle, dragging one leg like it was heavy or broken, carving a fat line next to the skinny one the good one made.
|
205200
|
He said he'd searched in vain for his wife, Mary, before abandoning hope and the ship in one of the last row boats. He was allowed in because of his experience fishing.
|
20511918
|
He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
|
205100
|
Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.
|
2051125
|
|
2051105
|
The waters rose / on the earth
|
2051153
|
He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
|
2050144
|
"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."
|
20502315
|
proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
|
205053
|
Once upon a time, my friend and I met a nanny pushing a baby carriage and reading an e-book. She wore a plaid dress, blue stockings and a white barrette. A set of wrinkles marred her tanned brow. Multitasking seemed too hard on her.
Inside the carriage
|
20501615
|
• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
|
2050128
|
The blue Victorian at 1145 White Street shifts in its foundation, creaks, and settles in for the night. The girls are bundled into their beds. My wife, too, has gone to sleep. I’m alone in the kitchen, steeping chamomile tea, coughing phlegm into the wr
|
2050156
|
with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
|
205082
|
Jerry tries to be funny saying, I think Charlie Brown should kick Lucy in the head when she pulls the ball away; either that or they start making out. Ewww, but they're both eight years old, Sandra says biting her lip, tying off her smile. Jerry won't focus on her…
|
205022
|
Most nights while in his sleep, with his one good eye deeply shut, the old man can hear the whispers of the specter in the remote wanderings, holding the surrounding woodlands in its snare. The sound of it closing in, with the bones of the universe crushing in…
|
205021
|
... red lipstick shiny in the bar's light, raven-colored hair spiky and toussled. Jen opened her mouth to say something, stickiness of her cherry Chapstick separating with her lips ... and the girl leaned in and started kissing her.
|
