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She was here. She could not go on. It was the end—the end of the world.

Walking on Canal Street, I slipped on the curb and fell on my face.

All of those feelings—you do not have them, they have you.

These days, I am less of an irony detector and more of a lyrical drone.

Somehow my confession became a sharp knife I kept hidden in a drawer.

He shot a spear into a boom timber and pulled the boat to it.

Hello, women rising up against toxic men. I salute you. And I apologize.

Some people are so beautiful, they belong everywhere they go.

Children were driven by deep yearnings that should be satisfied.

You’ve trained me well in the art of intimate distance. It’s not been easy.

The world is a riddle of shape and texture, from sight to smell to sound.

I saw her drunk, with bleary eyes, tousled hair, and a hideous grin.

I want to step out into sun to scintillate for waves to come and spray.

He tries to appear slight in his leather jacket and turbulent jeans.

The car is only a couple years old, but its memory taps into the past.

I remember the sun on the mountain like a trembling drop of lava. When the lasso dancers were done, they kicked away like wild colts.

“Well, it’s a dark world, Suzanne. She’s old enough to know that.”

That piece of flesh you’re with is a high school student, a minor.

The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen has become the saddest.

You mixed a drink of sugar, rum, brackish debris. The ice was finite.

The specimen, a man oblivious, is beautiful to behold, perfect, enough.

It dawned on me my passion was not for her but for the making-up.

I walk over to her for what seems to be an eternity. “May I have this dance?”

What is greater: the distance between these bodies, or their need?

Here lies the girl difficult to discern. Here lies the girl misanthropic.

Her wide and vicious mouth blossomed into a savage smile.

He could not stop marveling at the velvet quality of
her skin.

The palm’s outline shimmied in the sunlight against the aqua curtain.

I saw the man for the first time in Budapest on the Széchenyi Bridge.