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First a mother puts her child to sleep, then the other way around.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”

At fifty, a new love feels like a particular kind of hopelessness.

I stay gripped to pine and the sugar of existence runs through you.

That’s how a lifetime passes, closing the wound, a million stitches.

When I speak and wave my arms, it sniffs the air and watches me.

The white geometry of caulk between bathroom tiles—I’m held in place.

Break me like bread. Take me apart. Strip each rib down to light.

damn it we both die anyway at different times, with different pains

“Leaving for war, Hayes wept. He didn’t just cry; he wept...”

His eyes, dark brown and unwavering as he delivered the details.

I felt that Teddy occupied a range below acceptability, even among boys.

There is still the same reaching of the tongue for that pink ridge.

I’m the astronomer unable to lower his telescope, or look away.

He’s walking loopy, so I know he’s been had something besides beer.

A suitcase of the body slapped with stickers of scars from every location.

“I love you” is always a quotation. You did not say it first.

Ralph’s children had believed Christine was just after his money.

let me fall through some small bore into your tiny breathing eden

A woman from the next table eyed him and he eyed her right back.

We drove, talking fast, fast, fast. He was always going for my zipper.

She stopped, turned toward him, placed her hand on his chest.

The baby in her belly is not a sibling, will never be their playmate.

Maybe that’s what she feels, not stranded, but suspended in time.

Oh shit! I had that a while ago. Didn’t think I still did. So, so sorry.

she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.

When I was a child I once hallucinated that the laugh track was for me.

Today was the first day of her new life, and she was on an adventure.

I’m not afraid of dying. I’ve died on camera before. It’s not so bad.