2173 10 7
|
The birds were stacked up in the branches of a pine tree behind the feeder. Several were sitting on the fence. “They’re massing,” she said.
|
2150177
|
Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
|
21711410
|
Just a little shop girl in for the summer. Working on a typewriter. Barely knowing where the keys were. That was her. She was terrible at it. He was in a suit. He looked short, and thin, but something about him was captivating. He was in his own way hands
|
2231217
|
We got married in a hospital. My bride had her appendix out the day before our wedding, so we decided to tie the knot in her room at Hoover Memorial.
|
1405179
|
...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
|
15891310
|
You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
|
1866189
|
feathered waves of tangerine peach
|
14731210
|
I. Two cancer scares since June, one came up nothing the other nothing much. (My breasts are dense: I know all about moles— little bastards don't have to get sun to go nuts.) My manuscript travels ether to…
|
14771011
|
I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
|
14611310
|
the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
|
1519179
|
Perhaps they serve/
a God’s twisted will//
as they accelerate extinctions
|
168844
|
The only silver lining? The man in my life and I are in this together.
|
1747108
|
Satchmo sings a love song over the sound system. People read books, tap keyboards, drink coffee, eat cake. In Barnes & Noble—more a coffee shop these days than a bookstore—I am thinking about my dad and his stomach cancer.The terror he…
|
1181410
|
Celia was born with another baby's head atop her head and everyone in the village thought her cursed. It was because Celia's mother had been too young to be intimate with a man, twelve only, and the man, important in the village,…
|
14361310
|
Tentacles hold fast to the small/
thrashing thing they believe is true//
which, devoured, once crushed/
completely still, turns into shit,
|
16461510
|
when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
|
17781110
|
Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
|
1692199
|
I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
|
1090129
|
The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.
|
2302127
|
She is unsure if it will work, despite all her reading of physics and flying carpets and propeller planes. The practicalities of aerodynamics in application remain to be tested.
|
1581118
|
“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
|
1402189
|
Each day, I lose more words-/
nouns and verbs- but especially//
proper names. People and places
|
1459179
|
let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
|
1822129
|
My man wears chartreuse shoes.!
He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king
right there on Main St.!
|
18651310
|
the ugliness will not be denied
|
2881910
|
|
2395107
|
I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
|
16731310
|
|
16261010
|
As if to ask if I'm okay, as if to ask aren't we the same two on this wet December morning as ever, as yesterday, a month ago even, she shoots me a look as I stand by the bed, then her sane mild brown eyes…
|
2546179
|
“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
|
