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“Jesus Christ,” Dad said, after the counselor spelled it out for him.
I have many dreams, I say. In my dreams I am better than myself.
He’s gonna change the way we farm around here. Make it more like India.
The one who sold me a smuggled gun sold me smuggled bullets.
Loss. That word echoed in my ears as my eyes ranged around the garden.
Our neighbors the Bells are watching, watching us when we play outside.
In the garden this morning, I thought for a moment I saw T’ao Ch’ien.
“Out to lunch,” she learns from an older colleague, is a euphemism.
The architect is twice my age and owns an ivy-covered house.
The sedan clipped their front bumper and pitched Bill’s car into a slide.
Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.
The stories of terror continued well after the tsunami had passed.
Owen falls. Like a dummy. Like he’s dead even before he dies.
I’m trying to decide if I’m too cold to be curious, when the box meows.
It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.
He thought of the love that had filled the great central chamber of his life.
Another girl like an origami crane, given to a reckless boy who unfolds it.
Even in death, my mother had to make things difficult for me.
Now he was all out of dreams, out of rage, expectations, and money too.
I found a lodestone & I went to the creek & I buried it in the creek bed
The beasts and fowl and all manner of slithery thing can love like us.
Que voulez-vous? I said. Patisserie, she said and smiled. Pastry, I said. Well, that’s predictable.
My world must not be made of brief encounters along the neat squares.
I am almost never standing in the ocean, not that way, not anymore.
Florence’s cobbled streets spoke like a broken wheel, a halfhearted inferno.
A branch breaks and the body lands the wrong way. Snapping is easy.
He began singing, the words to a song that played from hidden speakers.
He was so frail, how could your heart not break when you saw him?
