1. Men’s novels are about men. Women’s novels are about men too but from a different point of view. You can have a men’s novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the ho...

My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,

I would like to watch you sleeping… which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter

The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear

This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons

You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost

It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;

Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost– silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus

My shadow said to me: what is the matter Isn’t the moon warm enough for you why do you need

The snake hunts and sinews his way along and is not his own idea of viciousness. All he wants… a fast grab, with fur and a rapid pulse, so he can take that flutter…

Snow packs the roadsides, sends du… onto the pavement, moves through vision like a wave or sand… The bus charges this winter, a whale or blunt gray

The house we built gradually from the ground up when we were yo… (three rooms, the walls raw trees) burned down last year they said

The puppet of the wolf I have not made yet encloses my right hand: fur stubbles my wrists, a tongue, avid, carnivorous,

This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size fo… blanks in speech, for those red he… shaped vacancies on the page that… like real hearts. Add lace

An affair with Raymond Chandler, what a joy! Not because of the mangled bodies and the marinated cops and hints of eccentric sex, but because of his interest in furniture. He kn...