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I looked into their eyes and loved them, and wished to God I was dead.

I promised to return, but secretly I dreamed of staying in America.

We called for the dead dog because toddlers do not understand death.

I hear pleasure ringing, and I wonder what led us to this moment.

He is too young even to be drinking let alone educating us.

The women wanted signs of regret, but she was straight shouldered.

Two animals, doe-eyed, slick across the road into the femur of the night.

The longing to know hovered like a star above this child-woman.

“Why on earth are you taking luxury cruise passengers to Zamboanga?”

Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.

He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.

The hut was cluttered with the skulls and bones of small animals.

It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear

It was enough to make the most hardened veteran drop his guard.

Joshua was well versed in things to which I was not yet privy, like sex.

The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.

Lucy Liu, you show me I can come to fruition and yellow on my own terms.

I didn’t want to start a poem with night where there should be a name.

“She showed me her tits,” said Jimmy. “Bullshit!” said Frank.

Then I graduate to a four-digit mortgage inside an ornate gate.

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

My mother hoped moving would erase the affair with a married man.

The men here don’t know where to place me, call me exotic grail.

Lust for power and money undermined their morality and common sense.

Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.

The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.

I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.

For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.

If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.

Carte blanche is bodily as chalk on dark asphalt, so enliven these eyes.