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Testimonyexpand_moreMy own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
You and me is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.
The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.
Draw me a map of your agonies, all the missing rivers you dried.
When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.
This itchy voice, this desperate chant, that begs: okay. Okay.
In search of the life we all agree is so desirable—art, romance, freedom!
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh
He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.
X wants, but Y gets in the way: the equation of desire and obstacle.
He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.
It’s not clear that Hemingway completely knew what he was doing.
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
The dead and alive who we will never see again but in dream or memory.
No-Horse sucked his lips, imagined the taste of the white girls’ hips.
Sitting beside a heap of steaming dung I felt in great poetic form.
The mirror will flow and the heart will set like glass in the frame of his bones.
After days of torture in secret prisons, they were about to let him go.
I can already feel the stone’s resistance as I work the first pass.
I’ve sinned. Cannot be saved. He was a child. Surely he went to heaven.
Lying in wait, set to pounce on the page, are letters up to no good.
When she passes you, her name is a bright blue phrase on your tongue.
My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.
He was frightened, a creature no more or less unbound by time than I am.
Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.
The true Lesson of the Master is, simply, to husband one’s own stupidity.
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
If I also could be lifted into the sky, I’d wish to be blown apart.
