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I peel off my shorts and tee-shirt, step out of my shoes, and crawl into bed. She wakes up then. "Oh, my goodness," she says.

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I greatly enjoyed imagining each wonton was one of my personal enemies and then biting it in half and pretending I could hear it screaming piteously as I chuckled and dragged out the chewing.

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This Is What Happens to the World in 10 Seconds

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The Bitterness of Butterfly Wings

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I know now, how she moves without verbs after you crushed her into the river.

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Naming the Beauties

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the signature of God/ consigning everything/ to the saturating energies of time.

In the Air a Shining Heart

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...He steps back from the abyss, inner eye envisioning the ink sip of a fountain pen, the hard, hot brain frenzy that sends phrases marching toward another bridge between oblivion and art.

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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.