#AmericanWriters
Jenny, your mind commands kingdoms of black and white: you shoulder the crow on your left… the snowbird on your right; for you the cinders part
Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might ha… alive with anyone under the sun, when I might have been Abelard’s… or the whore of a Renaissance pope
I. Insomnia The bulb at the front door burns a… If it were a white rose it would t… through another endless night. The moon knows the routine;
In Sleeping Beauty’s castle the clock strikes one hundred year… and the girl in the tower returns… So do the servants in the kitchen, who don’t even rub their eyes.
You have read War and Peace. Now here is Sister Carrie, not up to Tolstoy; still it will second the real world: predictable planes and levels,
Sometimes, when the light strikes… and pulls you back into childhood and you are passing a crumbling ma… completely hidden behind old willo… or an empty convent guarded by hem…
Who is that man in black, walking away from us into the distance? The painter, they say, took a long… finding his vision of the world. The mermaids, if that is what they…
What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four stout legs
If an inaudible whistle blown between our lips can send him home to us, then silence is perhaps the sound of spiders breathing
In 1936, a child in Hitler’s Germany, what did I know about the war in… Andalusia was a tango on a wind-up gramophone,
For Lucy, who called them “ghost… Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wi… along this road; they are everywhe…
When the moon was full they came t… some with pitchforks, some with ra… some with sieves and ladles, and one with a silver cup. And they fished til a traveler pas…
Our trees are aspens, but people mistake them for birches; they think of us as characters in a Russian novel, Kitty and Lev… living contentedly in the country.
1992 1) I was born in a Free City, nea… 2) In the year of my birth, money… confetti. A loaf of bread cost a m… course I do not remember this.
Doctor, you say there are no haloe… around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my…