Stories tagged poem

Girl Running Up Cherry Street, Looking For the Past

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I know I was hungry, she says to herself, maybe. I was hungry for what you had to offer. Your fast car, your dad’s ski boat, your prettiness, your beautiful mouth, your eyes, and yes for the joy you could give me between the legs. B

Stranded

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They come to mind/ like ice flowers/ on the small panes

Sweetheart with a .45

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come find me in high July come find me and brag about frost come be my friend at the end of the map come burn this church come melt your silver cross come cat fish a condom out my dresser drawer come alone, cum under a gold dust moon come throw another shadow on…

Flint

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I heard the little young dark-haired girl, the one who came looking for Flint the first night he moved in – I heard her crying muffled sobs down in the parking lot behind our place, and Flint was trying to comfort her, but she was really

Sugar Cookie Season

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take out the yellowed recipes/ left by mothers and grandmothers—// perhaps the great aunt who never married—

You Should Have Never Changed

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Her face turned up to me like a half moon, eyes black with black paint. Her skin like the inside of a ripe plum, her blue robes hanging down and opened at the front. Black hair cut straight across the forehead. I know what you were thinking.

Dog, Deer, and Boy

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A black and white Malamute chasing down a deer to the edge of the water, and putting her mouth on it. The hurt deer fallen into the water to escape. Red blood floating out into the water like cloth. The boy racing down the slope into the reeds t

Deception

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Distance.

Shiny Crimson Trails

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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red

Some Assembly but No Singularity Required

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The phone rings. The oven beeps./ The locomotive whistles and howls.

The Super Conscientious Citizen

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If the meter-maid man doesn’t keep writing these tickets, the Works will stop. So, she waits to one side, not to stop him. The Works must go on, or they will stop. If he doesn’t keep writing tickets, there’s no money in the coffers, and no job. And then p

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our cogs winding and whirring

A World of Cut Glass

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“1st I had two men in my life, now I have no men in my life.” She stepped on a world of deep lace, and glass, and proceeded as if she had nothing to lose, at first. Now she must lie on that flame and be still.

Koch Brothers

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When Chuck dies, I’ll throw/ a party and dance, a little drunk,/ across what I’ll pretend/ is the old shit’s grave.

Wherever and Whenever

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It’s good to get fucked in the rain. It’s good to get fucked in the back seat of a power boat on a river in the hot summer air with the mosquitos sucking the life out of you. It’s good to get fucked with your bare back rubbing up against the