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There, in the courtyard, a man might sit and call himself your friend.

Because I am lonely, I am always shying away from the mirror.

They’re shrieking down Little Round Top, receiving the good girls’ glares.

Lorna was like a sculpture carved by some Greek out of marble.

The moths were the things that invaded, like a bad man’s touch.

Ann Beattie in a wonderful reading of her story “Find and Replace."

I blush whenever that room in Ensenada comes to mind.

I’d have guessed the winter this way, every bitter plum already singing.

Theirs was a free fall that went on and on. If it’s time to fall, let’s fall.

The jealous Othello, ready for murder, was transformed into a school-boy.

I’m alive, Sarah thinks, the slam of his look going all the way in.

The social-media world was ablaze with his daughter’s bagunça.

Welcome to my bed. I have these two beers, do you want them?

our minds are not the same if they were the same you would be here

Imagine the world you want to live in; make the world in this image.

He loves me. That’s half enough: he’s the only man around.

I'll pick a black card of luck for you: star, pinkmoon, mirror, ostrich eye.

Elsewhere, perhaps here too, regimes stagger, a congress ends.

i was a wild thing down by the river, quiet like wild things are.

I drag my sheets as Earth drags her tangled mess of tides.

It is here I learn the speech of men. The speechless guilt of every swig.

The pupils are toothpicks. The lake is a sky with a circle beneath.

His flannel sleeve dangled into the flame. Pretty soon, I was on fire too.

Our father crumbled after her affair. We watched him for signs of cracking.

Maybe he was preparing for a disaster that would never happen.

I thought about the little graveyard where the man would be laid.

he has come to write like nervous wasps in my mind like a grocery list.

Her trust in me is a swirled marble sinking slowly in an aqua pool.

When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

I must tell you what it is like to be human, or you will drift away.