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We Never Stop Talking about Our Mothers

Her husband is away at the family cabin, and she is glad for the space.

Weekend

Amy put her arm around his shoulders. My boy. Isn’t he wonderful?

Werewolves and Other Intangible Things

She always came back with her lipstick smeared all over her mouth.

Wham Bam

We’re fat! So what? They hadn’t yet tired of this chant, the play’s refrain.

What Would You Have Me Do?

We’d never had a cross word, but I’d never corrected him.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Everything Changed

Whirlwind

The lion was still near them, stalking. Crazed against its cautionary nature.

White Fish

There isn’t a nice Jewish boy in sight—not that I’m looking for one.

White Nights

Can there have been something in my letter, that unlucky letter?

Wild Snow

My job requires me to make things disappear like a Vegas magician.

Will and I

When the doctors’ voices started turning to noise, I didn’t fight it.

Wino

Give him a bottle of red wine. You’ll be his best friend right away.

Wintercearig Waltz and Other Poems

You and the cat wish I were baking pumpkin pie and we were happier.

Winter’s Gate

He begrudged how money poured through her hands like water.

Wise as Serpents

The Nazis are training some of their storm-troopers here in America.

You Remember the Pin Mill

Her cheek was like a plum about to burst and you had to close your eyes.

Your Mouth, Our Prayer

give me a fish and I will make a necklace of its sharpest bones