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Please look away from Mars dangling so angry in so much darkness.
He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.
Atomic bomb. How could those two words be said together?
You knelt down to kiss her, avoiding, of course, the wound at her brow.
Many people remarked upon the similarities between the flags.
The human heart is far more intricate than any single term can describe.
Ring, ring, ring at 2 a.m. means meth’s got my brother in the slammer again.
He’s in the back of the cop car, hands in handcuffs, shaped like infinity.
Yes, the race of children possesses magically sagacious powers!
I push the stroller across the courts to the scene of the thing I don’t get.
How can anyone imagine sleep is possible in such a time?
One who has suffered enough, you can love yourself to death.
She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich.
To be married is to learn to love, captive in your own new country.
Now all I was, all I had ever been, when it came down to it, was a tenant.
He will, no doubt, be out of this house soon, headed over to Montgomery.
We roasted mastodons. Designed skewers, ovens, steampits.
Elsewhere, perhaps here too, regimes stagger, a congress ends.
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
The mechanism and its crank pull us forever closer, you and I.
I want you enough to gnash you into a silence made from pieces of silver.
Through the dark, we say, through the dark: but do we ever really know?
Like lions in cages, women like me dream . . . of freedom . . .
I bled. God didn’t want to hear about it. He said unclean and so it was.
At 35,000 feet, the center of heaven, in the deep Milky Way, we meet.
Instead, she stares right at us, her shoulder half-naked in broad daylight.
What right does an American mutt like me have to depict in fiction the lives of a Salvadoran family?
Like superstitious sports fans, we played the song night after night. Since giving birth I’d become hyperaware of death.
You are home in your bed like a soft animal with really intense feelers.
