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The danger of the shirt—always, every moment, it is so obvious.

The day holds a cup of milk and sits on the couch, legs tucked up.

I can’t see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better.

There’s being young and growing old, being here and being gone.

Some people you come across you come to love. He was one of them.

Each harbored a sense that a family of three was not a real family.

It stood across a narrow side alley where light-green ivy grew.

In search of the life we all agree is so desirable—art, romance, freedom!

Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh

How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.

You can always tell the military folk by their even stance, their steady gaze.

Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”

so this god is only wood and holes, a blank, like the moon’s unlit side.

Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.

He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.

He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.

I found myself wondering what her life had been in her widowhood.

Time stops as the ball rolls tantalizingly around the rim.

I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.

We’ve tried, but it seems it is in the stars for us to hate each other.

She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.

You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.

At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.

These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.

I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.