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Our camera pans along the porch, and we see each praying woman.

A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.

Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.

How shocking it was to discover these real things were not real.

Any society that fails to protect its children is in terminal decline.

He handed us sticks of dynamite, rolled in wax paper like taffy.

Hannah Sarvasy

His thoughts are never far from the erotic as he roams around Dublin.

To fulminate, to go on a tear, because what’s wanted is forbidden.

Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.

The stupider the president the more power you arrange for him.

I can’t hold a face held before dawn & not see behind the eyes bullets.

I have heard stories of the river, how people were willing to die to cross it.

Six other guests smoked Marlboro Lights, and ashtrays filled up.

I look on Britain as a new world, which it is almost madness to invade.

I lost myself in their minds: for the moment I actually became them.

Meghan Dunn

I wait for the one thing that will change my life to arrive in the mail.

Each night I curl my body around a small piece of silence.

I hear myself giving advice in my father’s voice: Take the emotion out.

What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.

How smooth their bones, like alabaster shaved from moonlight.

The past, you hear it, the small hours, sucked down the undertow.

I thought it was beauty alone that gave significance to life.

Young people have a gift for reviving freshness of language.

I found myself alone on the train in possession only of Knoll’s journal.

Men like me and my brothers filmed what we planted for proof we existed.

When the snake attacked the soldier, its fangs left a violent opening.

Some people see the man but not the light, the field but not the varnish.

West Oakland was characterized by unemployment, poverty, and blight.