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A clandestine participation through a soundless beauty.

she thrust to where her gut bucked acid & gave out a taurine heave

I see now that motherhood is not required to speak a mother tongue.

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

Oar blades, vast swirls of cirrus at dawn. The dead move within us.

To me, the very point of cooking is to wildly praise what’s wild.

All of this leaves me floating in seas of prehistory and indeterminacy.

A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.

We would just roll down the old biology road like all the other suckers.

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

Every day I was forced to return to the one place I did not want to be.

Of what use, other than to the butterfly, are a butterfly’s wings?

“Why don’t you say anything, people? These thugs are murdering me!”

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

We’ve seen a lot of smaller ranches bought up by outside money.

Every life is an imperfect continuation of another.

I wound through the Gothic castle buildings in the university.

Have you no one else to talk to? Your life is really that empty?

The Interests of a writer and the interests of his readers are never...

You sounded so confident about the Old Masters and I loved you for that.

Here I am, king of the gods, making a fool of myself just to get under your gown.

James Salter

James Salter

Words appear like the answer to a question I hadn’t yet asked.

A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey. It’s a little like cheating.

She does not know within a decade she will unload a slug into her mouth.

The Warsaw Pact invaded in 1968 and soon banned Hrabal’s work.

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