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The Couple Who Fell to Earth

We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.

The Crab

We buy a bag of cockles and three crabs, all female, sweet with egg.

The Crossing

The underworld reached out for your hand and found payment.

The Crossing Guard

He’s clear about his wishes: to die in this house, in his own bed.

The Curse of the Starving Class

Ambition and coincidence had led me to the Royal Theatre.

The Death of Prince Andrei

“I can’t die, I don’t want to die, I love life,” Prince Andrei thought.

The Deer

In the truck’s bed, resting where a dog’s might—the dead deer’s head.

The Diezmo, Part One

They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.

The Diezmo, Part Three

In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

The Diezmo, Part Two

I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.

The Edith Poems

When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.

The Family Artist

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

The Fine Arts and Other Poems

Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?

The First Meeting

Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.

The First People on Mars and Other Poems

You can always tell the military folk by their even stance, their steady gaze.

The First Time and Other Poems

I told kids I didn’t feel a thing there anymore, but it was a lie.

The Flowers of Bermuda

“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.

The Forgettable Life and Other Poems

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”

The Gold Cure

Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.

The Gold Cure

Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.

The Great Awakening

Time stops as the ball rolls tantalizingly around the rim.

The Hands That Waved Farewell

Hands that have waved farewell, sooner or later I will see them again.

The Healer in the Motel

You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.

The Heart Is Oil

The mirror will flow and the heart will set like glass in the frame of his bones.

The High Place I Go

My husband screws around. Not much and not often, but I know.

The Hookup

This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.

The Indianness

I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.

The Internet

I’ve sinned. Cannot be saved. He was a child. Surely he went to heaven.

The Invention of the Darling

With no words to speak about our love, we’re each one more alone.