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It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;
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…
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
I am the heart of a murdered woman who took the wrong way home who was strangled in a vacant lot… who was shot with care beneath a t… who was mutilated by a crisp knife…
Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and cav… you are not my doctor
In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your… though the real question is whether or not I will make you imm… At the moment only I
Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world: He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there
Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost– silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus
Confess: it’s my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to d… though Lord knows I don’t go out… I wear dresses of sensible cut
In winter the beach is empty but south, so there is no snow. Empty can mean either peaceful or desolate. Two kinds of people walk here:
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
In the burned house I am eating b… You understand: there is no house,… yet here I am. The spoon which was melted scrapes… the bowl which was melted also.
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, going along the path, mosquito-doped, with no moon, the… a single orange eye unable to see what is beyond the capsule of your dim
Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert