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Heartache & Lossexpand_moreAt nineteen you were six-foot-two. At ninety-one you will be two-foot-six.
Nothing stills, nothing stops. The world is still as it was before.
It’s cruel to watch my edges crystallize and reflect light.
Miriam slept at the ranch often, although little sleep happened there.
That what I call my Self is asleep, and has dreamed up these lilacs.
He knew deep down that only her ridiculous optimism kept them going.
“My brother’s last words to me were about you. Did you know that?”
It’s true, I killed my husband. I had my reasons. He was a hunter on the trail.
The Village wasn’t really a village. No walnut trees. Just cut flowers.
The end’s already in motion, the end was starting this whole time.
Goretti was a victim perfect for her time, an icon of Catholic sexual politics.
Fearing for them, I clustered them together, then cut them off.
Today is my favorite kind of day. Night opens, light concedes.
If I had known I would have saved the abacus from the fire.
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.
Relief workers tore swaths of insulation from the rafters of the house.
Doctor Dressler left her a note: Suicide. Back by 7:00. Love, Max.
Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?
I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.
She wants something red and shiny that always works.
I arrange your five deflating basketballs under the lonely net.
His chest rose and fell softly, in time, it seemed, to the song.
For days after she left him, he roamed the house, unable to function.
I eat what’s in front of me, as all great men do. Some wouldn’t, but I do.
A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.
Warm breath in my ear mouthing a name; rivulet folded back in water.
In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.
& I said let there be dark pouring from your mouth at daybreak
She was gone then, inaudible, steeple-reticent, demure as sky.
He was reading Our Town. She studied the departure board.
