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I see the garden far away in itself reflected in the polished spade.

I wound through the Gothic castle buildings in the university.

John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.

Kids were just let out of school to spend the summer running in packs.

It’s silly, I know, half-expecting to see Apollo playing lyre to a muse.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

What did St. Teresa have in mind when she prayed to be released?

Teddy, the new sous chef, is on fire again. It’s the second time in a week. I make a silent promise to myself never to have sex on a beach, not even with Ryan Gosling.

He probably had an order. Ludes, Dexis, Black Birds—who knew.

Through all this the sands kept vigil, harboring blood and bones.

The boy imagined his dead grandfather haunting the world.

My sister’s fever wasn’t gone at all, but dazzling—suspended over us.

Trysting lovers kissed while breezes fidgeted the leaves.

Fires, always fires after midnight, the sun depending in the purple birches.

Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile at this summer morning—

Three rooms, sight unseen, rented from a nurse and her husband.

My body. Stop the air. Travel by stopping, full stop, just there.

I ask that now I be allowed to see the one my vision has been denied.

“I am not in the least fond of Venice. I should like to go far away!”

In that instant, Niel lost one of the most beautiful things in his life.

Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.

Our camera pans along the porch, and we see each praying woman.

I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.

No fountains to quench the thirst between rounds of tag.

I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.

I was dusty, my ponytail all askew and the tips of my fingers ran red.

Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.

Hear the voice of life telling you something from the inside out.

Condemned to an easy life balanced on the suffering in another land.