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The Bodyexpand_moreYou walk and the world bends toward you like leaves waiting for rain.
We’ve seen the news. We know the story. How even our bodies hurt us.
Why did it take Steven’s small coffin to get me to see my own son?
When you are sixteen and sixty-five pounds, you are all shadows.
Had I always known this would happen? There had been no signs.
He longed only for Claire’s strange seriousness, her silent focus.
It is our first time, both of ours. This sentence ends with hate myself.
I stand within her walls with not a shred of terror, not a word of jeer.
Karen was, in that moment, nothing, emptiness. She was oblivion.
In carved hearts—the artery, link that links but won’t spell it out.
You are afraid pain itself might develop a way to communicate.
We have harvested nothing more than the stench of middle age.
In every pair, one shoe smells of exodus, the other of the body’s sweat.
As Andromeda, I practiced lapidary, cut my bare foot on the nautilus shell.
Why not keep singing when another car pulls up to the light?
Tell me our species matters more, tell me that, and I, I will crawl back.
The highway hot with possibility, a new herd expected every five miles.
“Please, please, please,” she begged the class. “Please don’t do it.”
When I say I’ve seen a man die, what I mean is many and always.
I tell him: junkies are the only people worth talking to about love.
The problem with my mother is that she thinks everyone a fool.
The girl marched directly up to me, glaring, and said, “You hit my dog.”
Bone unspools its musculature to the crush of atmosphere.
“You need me,” says the mind. “I just want what’s best for you.”
When push comes to shove, I can get downright Aeolian on you, son.
The pillow into which her face was turned muffled her voice.
Tears sometimes come in a bottle. Open and apply several times daily.
Later, in a sudden about-face, she gives herself to him entirely.
I didn’t trust her. Relationships like ours aren’t built on trust.
A bird is chirping outside, the world is carrying on, and she is in it.
