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Take some cherry tomatoes, I say when the moon rises over the pine.

There is a lot about others I don’t remember, outliving an interest.

Sometimes one does wade into it or is ambushed as by a incensed fog.

The sedan clipped their front bumper and pitched Bill’s car into a slide.

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.

My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.

This kind of childhood stuck with a person, twisted things up.

Que voulez-vous? I said. Patisserie, she said and smiled. Pastry, I said. Well, that’s predictable.

It will be years before the kids see us as real people, not just as parents.

How can we go on believing each day won’t be the one that flames out?

I have so many questions for you, for you are closer to me than anyone.

My mother taught me to rebel within the boundaries of acceptability.

money gotten by blood tends to stay in the blood, which has no race.

He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.

The purple-eyed women on her mom’s side began generations ago.

I reviewed the rules for myself, among them: stay in the moment.

I used to be known for the humor of my music, the lightness of touch.

All day we lay on the bed, my hand stroking the deep gold of your thighs.

Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.

Their house is what I see when I look up from my notebook.

Our culture cherishes a fantasy of a certain writerly existence.

A story about money, values, and materialism—in just six words.

I keep waking up on the edge of the black lake. He’s on the other side.

Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.

I have wasted your childhood, photographed you too much.

It was as if the stranger in the train carriage had taken out a knife.

“Look in my eyes. Do I look like someone who has heard this story?”

The new generation doesn’t play war, which is a shame; they text.

It seemed that someone had died, but really it was part of us.

He finds the note taped to the lid of the toilet: “There’s someone else.”