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Testimonyexpand_moreRiding back from her studio, Ivy thought, I’ll just stop for a minute.
On June 23rd, activists set up camp at New York City Hall.
How many gods do you believe in? How many good men?
Nothing holds the universe together; nothing is the secret force.
Mostly, though, you could turn them in your hand, hold them to your nose.
You come hot, marching between one blazing Arab & one crazy Jew.
He wrote and rewrote endlessly, and rose at night to reread pages.
It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food.
If party isn’t what we set out to do then you should go home.
There is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a friend.
Some asshole on a joyride in the outback runs her down, the emu.
I do not intend in these pages to put in a plea for this little novel.
our hands are full of those women tricked or transformed.
Children, this is what a bad dream looks like, our teacher said.
What if it does choose, the egg, I mean, her favorite spermatozoon.
Coil of metal, coin of wood, two-headed and soft in the middle.
Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.
The hymn that’s resurrected from the hymnal aspires to the spiritual.
Perhaps more than ever writers may have two kinds of fame.
I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.
The proper qualities of each sex are eternally surprising to the other.
Small valleys and veins give way to a lifted ridge like a rib or an arm bone.
An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.
Jayne Anne Phillips
There is a lot about others I don’t remember, outliving an interest.
When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.
It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear
On a jet stream, unearthly, air can travel at hundreds of miles per hour.
