My shadow said to me: what is the matter Isn’t the moon warm enough for you why do you need
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,
Gone are the days when you could walk on water. When you could walk. The days are gone. Only one day remains,
An affair with Raymond Chandler,… This is how our love affair would…
This is the place you would rather not know about, this is the place that will in hab… this is the place you cannot imagi… this is the place that will finall…
How did I get so dutiful? Was I… Going around as a child with a sma… sweeping up dirt I didn’t make, or out into the yard with a stunte… weeding the gardens of others
When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my… but you always miss and when you set out the poison
The body dies little by little the body buries itself joins itself to the loosened mind, to the black…
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…
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:
you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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
Living backwards means only I must suffer everything twice. Those picnics were already loss: with the dragonflies and the clear… What good did it do me to know
Evening comes on and the hills thi… red and yellow bleaching out of th… The chill pines grow their shadows… Below them the water stills itself… a sunset shivering in it.
Whether is it possible to become l… Whether one tree looks like anothe… Whether there is water all around the edges or not. Whether there are edges or whether
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but
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
She reclines, more or less, Try that posture, it’s hardly lang… Her right arm sharp angles. With her left she conceals her amb… Shoes but not stockings,
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
I do not mean the symbol of love, a candy shape to decorate cakes with, the heart that is supposed to belong or break;
i Behind glass in Mexico this clay doll draws its lips back in a snarl; despite its beautiful dusty shawl,
The red fox crosses the ice intent on none of my business. It’s winter and slim pickings. I stand in the bushy cemetery, pretending to watch birds,
Secrecy flows through you, a different kind of blood. It’s as if you’ve eaten it like a bad candy, taken it into your mouth,
1. Men’s novels are about men. Wo… Women do not usually write novels… 2. I like to read novels in which… 3. Men favor heroes who are tough… 4. Men’s novels are about how to g…
She squats, bare feet splayed out, not graceful; skirt tucked around ankl… Her face is lined and cracked. She looks old,
This is the plum season, the night… blue and distended, the moon hazed, this is the season of peach… with their lush lobed bulbs that glow in the dusk, apples
The eye is the organ of vision, an… Most people have a third eye but t… I’ve got nothing against telepathy… What’s the difference between visi… If you want to use the third eye y…
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
Dance me to your beauty with a bur… Dance me through the panic 'til I… Lift me like an olive branch and b… Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love
They sentenced me to twenty years… For trying to change the system fr… I’m coming now, I’m coming to rew… First we take Manhattan, then we… I’m guided by a signal in the heav…