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Illnessexpand_moreThe blade was buried to the hilt in the outside corner of his left eye.
He was regarded as a visionary and a fool in almost equal measure.
I’ve made a rigorous effort. But it’s been hard, this hug embargo.
I bought the gun after my therapist said he wouldn’t have sex with me.
“Listen,” Mike said. “You’ve had a hard day. How about I drive you home?”
I will never know what my mother guessed or didn’t suspect.
I want to be rapt around your linger, not Thumbelina under your dumb.
“Your mom is awake,” I said. “You need to go in and see her.”
forget how to count starting with your own age starting with even numbers
You can dive still see half the Spanish castle, its stone pile a trap
I don’t know who he wants to be, and it’s not because I haven’t asked.
Sue Mell
A nearly perfect guitar fell from the sky and landed in my mom’s azaleas.
“The rattlesnakes glow in the dark, man. You should see them.”
He wondered how others lived with their sins. Maybe they never did.
you always have something in store for me. bad news.
He will, no doubt, be out of this house soon, headed over to Montgomery.
If someone looked into his eyes they would see how ugly his mind was.
Motionless at the window. Forehead beaded with a line of fevered moons.
She examines her left hand, finger by finger, gripping and pinching the flesh.
I know exactly what to do when Papa has a seizure in the middle of the night.
The social-media world was ablaze with his daughter’s bagunça.
Fishing with Dad guaranteed two days of just us and made me special.
Exhausted, androgynous, delirious, I delight in my many parts.
In hushed awe they talk of things to come, a golden time of flowering.
I told you how I’ve always been attracted to little violences.
His flannel sleeve dangled into the flame. Pretty soon, I was on fire too.
When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.
We had run out of every necessity. You name it, we didn’t have it.
Let’s rummage through each other’s bodies like a blowout sale.
