| 17  2  0   
 | Your matted hair a clotted dark galaxy  torn from useful teeth  stars disappear into the flavorless gray     Does it always have to be that way?  Do we always have to change?  Will you stare if you ever see me again?    | 
		
		
			| 9  1  0   
 | My matted hair a clotted dark galaxy  torn from useful teeth  stars disappear into the flavorless gray  a longing nebula of regret     The universe is turning old  before you know  Does it always have to be that way?  a gray universe of stars dying unknown deaths … | 
		
		
			| 18  3  0   
 | She had four last names in her young life . . . her father Haaken picked the name Bjørnsund, after the area where he most successfully caught fish, the Bear Sound. | 
		
		
			| 1840  12  7   
 | Bloop. Velvet's paws hit the carpet. The new man of the house is on the prowl for food, a walk. Breakfast was Rice-A-Roni; for lunch I'm serving Ring Dings. Perhaps he'd like a bite? | 
		
		
			| 40  6  3   
 | In her dreams a man and a woman walk hand in hand,  hibiscus or bougainvillea somewhere in the vicinity, like teenagers at the  first mystery of reacting to one another's presence.  How breathtaking the  other one is, like the sea, like the salt wind, like the… | 
		
		
			| 237  4  1   
 | When  the girl came back home to bury her mother that summer, Roger knew there would  be trouble. In some low-lying part of his brain, he had always dreaded the  moment he would let himself fall.          He'd tried to ignore the… | 
		
		
			| 1974  8  5   
 | Your pajamas torture us.
 
When moist they uncomfortably cling.  They have evil buttons, and they cause us to stumble on them in the dark. | 
		
		
			| 1897  10  4   
 | I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees. | 
		
		
			| 30  4  3   
 | Halfway up the mountain a grown man sits, solemn, in a patch of daisies. | 
		
		
			| 138  9  9   
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			| 1420  4  3   
 | 1.                     Walking here
                        with you
                        on these narrow
                        strands
                        of clean air
                        & imagination
                      | 
		
		
			| 1413  2  0   
 | From somewhere beneath the train, steam rose, which was—of course—puzzling as the train was powered by electricity. The steam condensed on the windows of the cars, making tears streak across the surface. Perhaps that was why the woman’s cheeks were shinin | 
		
		
			| 921  4  2   
 | Sula tries to bring a bit of the magic back with her. She carefully tucks some into her suitcase between the Union Jack knee-high socks for her sister and souvenir Big Ben T-shirt for her mother. She braids some into her hair. | 
		
		
			| 1476  3  3   
 | two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
 
no, blue-green | 
		
		
			| 1588  0  0   
 | Tonight was no remarkable night.  The sun rose and set without question, children’s hearts broke with truth, around the world millions of people lost someone they cared about, millions people fell in love.  It was an average day—it was unremarkable.  It w |