1297 18 12
|
He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
|
12561211
|
It is almost as if there isn’t a wedge of wood between us – I can feel him inches away from me. I can’t control the sigh or the tears that escape my body.
|
108498
|
Incidents intensified. The Dead appeared in twos and threes at shopping mall and Wal-Mart parking lots.
|
9875
|
had half my head shaved like I lost a bet.
|
11055
|
“Best bet for that is the balloon shop by the swamp.”
|
104411
|
Let there fly the sticky platypus of love, resplendent beak of the sleek.
|
7088
|
Mama lied when she met daddy. Told him she was already with child, and then she was.
|
700
|
short poem I wrote with no socks on, the floor was cold.
|
210244
|
Tonight the autumn air is clear and still. There is no frost to compare to moonbeams; no wind carries lotus fragrance or rustles maple leaves.
|
95100
|
From outside it looked abandoned. We lived at the top of a dead end hill. The grass was high and brown, the bricks in the driveway were crooked, caved in. The winter was mild; rotten crabapples, half-frozen, lined the end of the road. This was my house.
|
115033
|
The hotel sits on the highest point in Shimla: a place of cedar-scented air, an aggressive monkey population, and summer houses left by the British Raj.
|
156076
|
At noon on a weekday in the off season, when the trickle of tourists who wandered into the Mermaid Curio Shoppe had died out completely, she walked in with wet hair, leaving tiny puddles on the floorboards.
|
121055
|
On the coldest day of the year, the weather man walks back from the measurement booth across a snowed-over plain, solid as cement and tinted with the pale yellow glow of the northern lights.
|
37476
|
We saw a sign advertising a palm-sized woman. I suggested we have a look. It didn't occur to me we were paying a dollar each to see a midget. I don't think you realized it either.
|
40444
|
Adele was beautiful and Frank plain, but she let him make love to her anyway. However, the next morning, Frank saw, to his disgust, that her fine red-blond hair also tapered to a long downy beard.
|
