One of God’s tricks is, similar to Michael Jordan, It sinks a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left on the clock,

It occurs to me now that no one hears my song. Still young, I am discarded. I don’t anticipate being surprised at my aloneness in old age.

Finally alone, I lie with a volum… I venture again to hear the injunc… normally I savor their sensitivity… but tonight all I can think about

Nothing is all I ever wanted, now I’ve got it all! Careful! Lest I become a braggart… From nowhere it’s a hard fall.

I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.

Trees poke from the earth like the mummified hands of the martyrs. Buried alive, they strained with last breath

In the most lovely of lands, before a backdrop of mountains and palms, there hangs a pall— All my Loves

Two onyxes atop another out where the witch frolics, the signal clear, it rang through my throat so loudly I frightened myself:

I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—

Every time I leave my parents’ ho… I am filled with a sweet sorrow. It has taken me half a lifetime to… and now I love them so dearly, so… They nor I are getting younger

Needless of a judge, a contrite heart is a bird suspended on a current, shifting myriad planes without asking or telling.

The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking only the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering

Which came first, the egg or the h… An old friend visits on the anniversary of his death— He finds a voice

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

There is a most worthy woman, the upper steward of the manor, Obermeyer of Holy Terra, house cute, smokestack simmering,