1649 1 1
|
Eyes so much deeper, that the internal flow could not hope to equal the intensity fired beyond iris, pupil and sclera. So blue, that life could not exist in the fragile shape of his heart, blue veins outlining an ever enlargening circumference…
|
1271 0 0
|
a dozen girls with Encarnación's face flit past, whispering kisses along the part of my hair, tickling their hems along the cuticles of my nails.
|
1232 0 0
|
Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
|
817 0 0
|
There’s a light moving toward me in the sky. How often at the edges of reason, the howling desire has taken me. Howling desire! How often it has taken me in its mouth, naked, and shaken me. And now there’s a light moving toward me in the sky.
There’
|
1160 0 0
|
Tombstone is a tongue of stone in the mouth of the desert. The desert is a living entity. It speaks. It speaks with a tongue of stone. It says: Tombstone.
|
1282 9 5
|
Then I found myself in the water.
|
1443 3 2
|
"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
|
1348 2 1
|
There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
|
1287 2 1
|
Up top, the sky is like a fist fight-
fat lip purple and bitchslap pinks get wilder as the tabs kick in.
Those hovering lights are aliens!
we assert with insistent like-mindedness
from where we sit directly beneath the airport flight path.
|
1241 0 0
|
Read that bit in Alice about the mock turtle soup
|
750 2 1
|
It was 1984, that foreboding year, I now
recall. You were in the hospital,
your cat having snagged your nail.
|
1322 0 0
|
oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available/a-Babel towers of post &toastmodern doom/daze
|
1086 2 1
|
I remember taking you to see all these sexy movies because it really built up the passion in you. I loved what you did to me when we got back home after those movies. That’s when we were just trying out our dating wings.
I don’t know if you knew how
|
1326 1 0
|
My famous ‘Black Feminist Casserole’ was soon renamed ‘34C casserole’.
|
1192 3 1
|
There is a the reason for the theft of people and the melting of gold
|
1980 13 8
|
I still believe in the very slim chanceI might say something luckyenough to reach your truest insides, your at homespirit, that you will hearand understand ascare on my part, evenif you can never quiteidentify me asits secret sender, that warm…
|
1379 3 3
|
Waking in the middle of the night, tangled in the hotel sheets, I wanted to hear the story again: their pilot friend, the war, his specialty. "It's just a screw, son," Dad said, "nothing exotic."
|
1342 0 0
|
Normally, Aidan looked like a guy. A highly feminine guy, but still a guy. He wore his hair in a buzz cut (a turn on of mine), wore tight clothes, worked out so he had a bit of muscle, but nothing over the top. And he was my guy.
|
1303 4 2
|
Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
|
1263 4 2
|
Last night we slept with books in the bed.
|
1289 5 2
|
Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.
|
1397 4 1
|
I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
|
1018 2 1
|
I heard a story once that said we are all entitled to seven good years. No, wait, that is not exactly what it said. Rather, it was more plaintive and inquiring. The feeling that song gave was more one of asking the question: Wasn’t I supposed to get sev
|
1408 5 5
|
He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
|
1599 5 2
|
“It’s about basic working conditions!” she says, rubbing ice cubes on her nipples.
|
916 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…
|
1486 0 0
|
He was jolted awake from his light slumber by his pod crash landing. Landing? That means he found a planet. He opened the pod and got out to stretch his legs. He looked around. "Wow, and I thought Aleria was advanced. This is amazing."
|
1326 10 3
|
We are what we are, and that is zombies.
|
1561 2 2
|
in cinematic snippets, ten-second scenes of twelve Sons …
|
1541 10 6
|
|