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Women & Menexpand_moreFor me, Selweh was the real magic. She was nothing like my mother.
When he had passed from view, I stumbled back from the window.
She is complaisant with all her clothes off. She moves to his touch.
Americans have always a kind of tenderness for cheat.
She is very rich. She will leave me everything when she dies, he says.
I have, in the long solitude of my body, asked for something else.
My desire to be in sync with him had nearly been my undoing.
How much simpler and more satisfying was the company of men.
My bike, my skinny body, my pent breath was thrown to the grass.
I was convinced she’d be back in the morning, like the sun.
The chocolate was old, dusty white, the way chocolate gets after many years.
She flicked a bit of citrus on her tongue. Her laugh was hard and high.
She remembers that golden ocean, the promise of a whole new land.
She remembers that golden ocean, the promise of a whole new land.
How much, I thought, such stolid suffering resembles love. Planets don’t change direction as easily as love.
There was something in her voice, some awful, enduring fire.
The guards ripped off Mara’s clothes, pinning her head against the wall.
To articulate sweet sounds together is to work harder than all these.
Since I am in my seventies, it is now or never, and I know it.
All night the insects’ grinding jaws chewed through the darkness.
He tuned the future backward as he left the ringing water to reclaim me.
I sit next to a man I never loved but let kiss me wetly for two months.
“I’m torturing you,” she said. “It isn’t fair.” Now I saw there were tears.
He said he had come back to the prison because it was home.
Here is my aphorism of the day: Happy people are monogamous.
From the flight deck Gray could see home, wherever that might be.
I’m mourning in the armpits of a lover we once called a family friend.
I was thinking sex, she was thinking sex, but neither of us made a move.
Had I always known this would happen? There had been no signs.
He longed only for Claire’s strange seriousness, her silent focus.
