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The Merwin Conservancy

Merwin discovered and restored eighteen acres of abandoned land.

The Most Dangerous Book: Ulysses at One Hundred

His thoughts are never far from the erotic as he roams around Dublin.

The Mustache

“I mean it, Martín. I won’t marry a man with a bald lip, like a boy.”

The New Arrival

The child is too perfect to be human; too perfect, truthfully, to exist.

The Night I Watched My Twelve-Year-Old Brother Get Cuffed & Taken from Our Home, Tearing Up, Saying: “I Didn’t Do It!”

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

The Ninth Dream: War (in the City in Which I Live)

I have heard stories of the river, how people were willing to die to cross it.

The Novel

For two days I’ve been weeping over a nineteenth-century novel.

The Palace of Illusions

I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.

The Piece of String

“Nothing does you so much harm as being in disgrace for lying.”

The Pizza in New Jersey

He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.

The Red Studebaker

If your father were here, he wouldn’t put up with your insolence.

The Religious Experience

“For the entire time I was there I couldn’t get that out of my head.”

The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance

This morning I watched two elephants dance the boogie-woogie.

The River Merchant’s Answer to His Wife

Each night I curl my body around a small piece of silence.

The Rock

She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.

The Romance of Elsewhere

If you want to know what to write, ask yourself what obsesses you.

The Royal Reykjavík Sex Tour

We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.

The Sin of Height

What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.

The Spectacular

What’s a man supposed to do when his best friend is a falcon?

The Stand-In

They’d been together an hour, but they were an easy threesome.

The Stylist

Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.

The Thomas Cantor

He will be unable to resist his manias for symmetry and completion.

The Underground

Those under us are not dead. They are dancers. We are the music.

The Village

The golden-haired ones, they think they’re better than Virgin Mary.

The Waterwheel

The boys searched for their father, lost somewhere in the Olympic Range.

The Wicked Girl of Kowloon City

Somebody would be a lot happier if she were more like her mother.

The Widening

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.

The Witching Hour

I crouched just like my mother burying nail clippings to ward off curses.

The Woods

How do our lives disappear even while we’re in the midst of them?

The Wreck of the Deustchland

Sister Barbara folded her arms like a forbearing husband.