1830 18 9
|
She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.
|
1395 21 12
|
We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
|
1806 15 13
|
Poets who thrum jirble and thwack
Poets who thrum eat quorn with raw swamms
Poets who thrum are eristic (not shambolic)
Poets who thrum deliciate unto kench when they freck
|
973 24 11
|
I remembered our wedding reception. I tasted the crab cake, pulled her from greeting people, said, you have to try. And she did.
|
1430 24 11
|
|
1603 11 7
|
The world knows how to make you smile. I'm certain, but it's your own unique grin that they want for themselves. It's always been their perfect prize to horde. The trouble of course comes from wanting something that only exists in…
|
1117 16 12
|
Millicent asked me to stop over at her place for coffee after work because we needed to talk. While pouring, she said she was torn about telling me what her father used to do to her when her mom was not around, but she thought I needed to know how twisted her life was…
|
928 12 13
|
The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.
|
1306 12 13
|
No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…
|
1971 14 12
|
I interviewed in an hour and didn’t have an umbrella, so I ducked inside the next door I passed. It didn’t matter what they sold, I wasn’t there to make a purchase.
|
1815 21 8
|
I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
|
2375 12 9
|
I'm standing outside your window with our son's fingers in my fist.
|
2249 16 11
|
Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. It was replaced with contempt. Their fear warmed my cold sensibility as I steeled myself.
|
1509 18 12
|
Reality winks at us then scampers off
|
1661 19 13
|
perjured like a fickle impulse
|
1733 14 13
|
. . . clinging to life in a shroud of winter air. It veered up five flights to a sweltering summer night on the roof . . .
|
2162 15 11
|
He gathers our abusive fathers, our esophageal tears, our peanut fetuses.
|
1276 16 13
|
A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
|
1724 13 12
|
They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
|
246 14 12
|
I keep sneaking looks at this guy on the subway. He's old, maybe 80. Really thin, the kind of thin that makes you think of a skeleton. But he's wiry. His beard, it's a gray, shaggy mess. He's mostly bald, but the hair that grows around the sides and back of his head is too…
|
903 13 12
|
The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
|
1377 14 13
|
Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
|
1928 6 6
|
The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.
|
1945 22 10
|
The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
|
1462 13 12
|
|
2024 18 9
|
Jesus will walk on the water.
Judas will walk on a technicality.
|
1714 31 11
|
They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.
|
1651 19 11
|
|
1353 18 11
|
"We gotta get out of here", you said
|
1509 17 12
|
When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.
|