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Vanishing Point

The kissed fingerpad touched wet with wine orbiting.

Vernal Equinox

I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots outside in the night.

Verve Is to Élan What Kissing Is to Kissing Longer

I am the king of doing wheelies on the Stingray bicycle of my mind.

Very Late

Even our tenderest buds and shoots endure the late snow.

Victoria’s Secret

He’d always wanted to kiss her thigh dimples but never dared.

Visit from the Gods

Zeus’s tongue thrusts straight and deep between my lips.

Waiting

People believe; The whole world is part of something.

Wanderer in a Foreign Country

She fell out of her own composition, fell and landed flat on her face.

Wanting

If Vann kisses her, a mist will rise in her brain. A promise of oblivion.

Wants

I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up.

Washed Away

The future was spread out for us to go in any direction we wanted.

Washington

You couldn’t believe what the rhododendrons do around here.

Water of Life

Albert came to her rescue. “The Great Gatsby’s our religion,” he said.

We Are What We Have Lost

Ella knew she hadn’t hurt Sebastian, but she knew she’d betrayed him.

We, the Reader

How do we get there, to where we can answer what the jingle is asking.

Wedlock, Gridlock, Liplock

We’re tired. In bed, we hold hands. We watch TV. But do you want more?

Weekend

Amy put her arm around his shoulders. My boy. Isn’t he wonderful?

Wellfleet

This morning drifts of sand hissed along the shore like mist.

Wet Man

I will make my own man I will stitch together a coat of drunk minks

What You Get

There was nothing sadder than the look of defeat in a man’s eyes.

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Giving Is All We Have

You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are green.

When He Left: Index of First Lines

What I became was not pretty. Like a needle on water-warped paper.

When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing

I wouldn’t know what to do with the body, gills pumping like an accordion.

When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness

it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him

When Things That Never Happen Happen

The next time we made love, I looked for the fox looking down at me.

When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing

I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.

When You Write the Story

When you write the story of being a father don’t leave out the joy.

Where Are We Going?

I hightailed it out of the hospital like my ex-wife was a prison I’d escaped.