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Loveexpand_moreFor me, Selweh was the real magic. She was nothing like my mother.
Americans have always a kind of tenderness for cheat.
Three months is a long time to be away from the person you love.
I have, in the long solitude of my body, asked for something else.
My desire to be in sync with him had nearly been my undoing.
How much simpler and more satisfying was the company of men.
I was convinced she’d be back in the morning, like the sun.
The chocolate was old, dusty white, the way chocolate gets after many years.
She flicked a bit of citrus on her tongue. Her laugh was hard and high.
She remembers that golden ocean, the promise of a whole new land.
She remembers that golden ocean, the promise of a whole new land.
How much, I thought, such stolid suffering resembles love. Planets don’t change direction as easily as love.
To articulate sweet sounds together is to work harder than all these.
I’ll see you on the sea, they say, but then they float past on a raft
I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams.
All night the insects’ grinding jaws chewed through the darkness.
He tuned the future backward as he left the ringing water to reclaim me.
L comes over & we walk turns around the block—this is what we’re allowed.
What if my mother could have been happy if I hadn’t been born?
I never knew that the song of the first summer cicadas could ease my hips
At the memorial service, I could barely hear the student read.
Here is my aphorism of the day: Happy people are monogamous.
Death is a lack, I suppose, and love more so. But I will not falter.
Art touches the soul and moves life in ways that commerce cannot. E. L. Doctorow noted that writers seem to get business ideas almost right.
We will use my entire bed and all my dishes, make dirty each chair.
I’m happy in the unmapped landscape inside the bottle.
He longed only for Claire’s strange seriousness, her silent focus.
I couldn’t love the tree in every soul shouldering its own tiny autumn.
Desperately, children: I am in desperate need for desperate need.
My father made me watch softball on ESPN 2 to help me stay alive.
