A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...

I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”