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Country Lifeexpand_moreHis eyes rested on the trees. By George, it’s like the garden of Eden.
Nothing happened to him? Why, genius had happened to him!
I’m always driving through the desert, on the interstate’s black river.
Maybe that’s what she feels, not stranded, but suspended in time.
she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.
Today was the first day of her new life, and she was on an adventure.
You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Marshall and Mrs. Checchi, it seemed, had this philosophy in common.
The everlasting shines through in the threshold between worlds.
The current looked cold and brown. It would freeze soon—November.
With my lime-green nitrile gloves I carried him around to the others.
Dad doesn’t believe I’m beauty queen material. I believe in myself.
My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.
Though I’ve never killed anything myself, I’ve been complicit.
It’s been a rainy, relatively windless fall, the aspen leaves clinging.
It suddenly seemed to her that the world was filled with little miracles. There were moments when love overcame her despair.
The grass is defiant, wild, and reluctant to take any shape.
A finger on the bell, a quick sprint on light feet, and then stifled laughter.
I want these things to have another life, like the old garden behind our house.
Gotta watch them damn sorry folks he sez they leave the best stuff.
I’d wager a cicada is fond of a high note on a synthesizer.
These old guitar players were the last pure thing this country produced.
It’s been months, and the fields are good for nothing but night talks.
Here is the fat guy whose Chihuahua gnawed through his stomach.
He is too young even to be drinking let alone educating us.
The women wanted signs of regret, but she was straight shouldered.
Miriam slept at the ranch often, although little sleep happened there.
Navigating the trailer park at night felt like a raid on a strange village.
He knew deep down that only her ridiculous optimism kept them going.
