Stories tagged love

Eleventh Love Poem and Eleventh Song of Despair

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Reality is overrated. A mistake

there is no erasure of things first felt

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Love escapes into primary nouns . . .

Twelfth Love Poem and Twelfth Song of Despair

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Let us not save each other for special occasions.

Women on Motorcycles

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Do you want this, you ask, and hand me a blue silk shirt of hers with small yellow flowers. I'm afraid to say no, in case it makes you remember all over again.

Thirteenth Love Poem: After the Forest

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Today I do not want to change the world.

Trader Joe's, on a Sunday

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When you think I'm not looking, I always am. You say it's like nicotine, your best analogy as a non-smoker. The kind of hit that is hard to live without and isn't it human nature, you ponder.

Wash That Man

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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…

Fire Alarm

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You snore and the house is safe again.

Where would Desire wait

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. . . when distance loses memory in plain sight . . .

The Ex Flies

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"My ex Maxine claimed red wine was the healthy alcohol choice. When we were married and I still had money she drank the expensive stuff, as if drinking Chateau Montrose 2005 instead of two buck chuck made her any less of a wino. She would have been better

A Coin, Two Coins

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It hangs unspoken in the sadness he pushes through his harmonica, while his hands work the old, beat-up guitar that tries to be a Gibson for his fingertips.

The Night Season

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the equator of havoc

Why She Is in Love Again

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Minutes later he drove back

Emily's Letter to her Husband's Lover

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I almost kept him on the shelf with all the trophies.

Emily Writes to her Father in Heaven

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I am bewildered