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Heartache & Lossexpand_moreThus is the way of leaves the secret ones that no one sees, not even me
Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.
The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.
Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.
I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.
I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.
If, on your deathbed, you want to watch a movie, don’t let me pick.
Sometimes a you is a lover, but he is not my lover. He is looking at me.
Miss Moses smiled, I could take you, buster. Don’t try anything with me.
“I mean it, Martín. I won’t marry a man with a bald lip, like a boy.”
Ron Carlson
Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.
I ask if you are all right until you can be nothing but not all right, not okay.
I can’t hold a face held before dawn & not see behind the eyes bullets.
Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.
I have heard stories of the river, how people were willing to die to cross it.
For two days I’ve been weeping over a nineteenth-century novel.
Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.
I forgot to detail that the jumper leapt from beside the hanging Monet.
It was a Saturday night in November when his diagnosis finally came.
I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why.
I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.
Just before four in the morning, the dog barks, the headlights appear.
Mafia didn’t like me, except for the tickling game. It went like this.
At night everything feels. Even a river feels its way through the woods.
She is eight years old and doesn’t recognize the word divorce.
It had been four weeks and five days since she confronted him.
On her sixty-second birthday Marge Olson got a call, not a gift.
