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The Bodyexpand_moreThe everlasting shines through in the threshold between worlds.
Before we were ornament, we were names moving in a mouth.
I looked up how much everything would cost. Giving birth: $9,000.
When you turn fifty, you have to prove to yourself you’ve got something left.
Language seems accomplice to grieving, everything dissolves.
He was shirtless and showcasing a large tattoo of the Twin Towers.
You’re feminist? Neither one of you. You just like getting into fights.
Praise the ease of it: how simple it is to tell the dog he loves her.
The blackness of her hair seemed to pull the color from her body.
Stable-keeper’s kids know broken then healed, but healed with limits.
The attendant instructs remember, immerse three times.
Fletcher was a squad leader. He ought to be able to get a girl.
Who mind loved would not rather be loved body too. Since all is all.
It was as the angel speaking of Isaac, a deception, a test to survive.
The small, inadequate marks follow the outline, things left behind.
Smoke and stock and toasted chili flakes. The garlic at marshmallow tan.
All that existed was Louisa’s beauty—or Khin’s refashioning of it.
I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.
What small song do you sing under your breath that is only for you?
Of all she taught me I like best the lore of spray-on cologne.
It was hard to know what memories or images had marked him.
She wags her index finger so furiously that I’m certain it will snap off.
She’s coming back, her arms full of the flowers I gave her once a year.
The dead men don’t look like themselves or anybody else.
Some days it seems like enough to look in the glass for glazed relief.
Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!
Grant had a lot of buttons on that coat—when he wore it.
What were the unsafe things to say even in a thirty-year marriage?
I keep dripping milk until I’m sitting in a pool of it, sticky, white. I can’t move.
It is not surprising that her solo marathon did not turn out as planned.