964 7 5
|
I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
|
1302209
|
feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
|
11641110
|
|
13531010
|
I watch from the cabin window the death of the sun, hear the howl of the new-born storm.
|
868128
|
My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
|
124599
|
Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
|
1667139
|
Things don’t happen here, life is so boring in this little Irish town.
|
13881410
|
One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
|
1279169
|
Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
|
1478159
|
Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
|
1583188
|
I always step around his mess...
|
1467159
|
At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
|
1573137
|
Purple not rain! I guess Prince left. It is said that Prince owned the aquifer under Jordan, Minnesota, and that he sold it but to whom? And moved to Canada—
|
1799147
|
You know, my mother was afraid that I can no longer resist. She was absolutely right: My four sisters have all passed away before the summer shows its fruit. It was hard "said my mother”, not to see my flowers bloom. I, the calf of my mother,I came…
|
749108
|
"I’d rather move a word around a page
than raise a glass or pass a plate
or work a room immune to poetry."
|
1013179
|
he considers the swirl of galaxies/
with their black hole hearts,
|
14561010
|
Yellow Pages season is on us now, and Jimmy's drivin' a contract route. He'll head out to the San Joaquin where they print, and load ‘em in the back of his Tundra with the high side walls until the whole damned rig sags low,
|
12181110
|
Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
|
2810159
|
“How’s the Pinto running?” Sean says. It’s been awhile. Maybe Darcy won’t remember him.
|
1179149
|
Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
|
1220188
|
The cloudless sky/
amplifies the incompletion,/
clarifies the imperfections/
of the night’s normalcy-
|
1351179
|
Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude
|
813109
|
Most of the boys I pretended to marry thought my classroom seductions were funny, but there is a chance that one of the boys turned violent against me.
|
951129
|
For the new year, I´ve given up palm oil.
Made shopping a whole lot harder.
Damn orangutans tugging at my conscience.
|
15031510
|
It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
|
13941410
|
When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
|
1242168
|
I watch the seagulls making their quacking noises
|
1784179
|
I don't know what happened to all the men. Used to wonder if they killed them all.
|
1316149
|
When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
|
1102149
|
The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
|
