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Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.

Like New York City, the factory was circumscribed but infinite.

We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.

In the backyard I submerge myself in a bathtub of soil, soak with the hose.

She’d seen snakes before, but she’d never really looked at one, until now.

Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.

His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.

There was a shout, then a shot fired. I pressed the shutter again and again.

Let’s walk down to the river, bless the paper boats and turn it all into wine.

My mother is queen of buttons. She shows off the prized ones.

I love it—watching gray light bleed out over the makeshift bed on the floor.

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Ike’s voice left behind on the shore as Tina plunges in again.

I love scientists. They’re trying their hardest. And they just want love.

It seemed to her that they only ever touched each other in transient, sudden ways.

Neither fame nor wealth could provide consolation for life’s brevity.

She wears her nakedness like it has been woven from air.

Not all his children love themselves. Look at little Adrienne.

I want to sleep in a bed next to a man who won’t dream of me all night.

My first true love was Underwood, my mother’s typewriter.

She takes her hand to my scalp: eyes close as if tasting lemon cake.

Tanya jokes that she comes to the East Coast now only for funerals.

Some types of pain are just too deep to touch, are better left alone.

You smile into the phone static, the breath of your beloved.

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

You live in this country, you put up bars, you train your dogs to snarl.

I miss sex. I really liked it, and I was good at it, if I do say so myself.