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There, in the courtyard, a man might sit and call himself your friend.

Because I am lonely, I am always shying away from the mirror.

They’re shrieking down Little Round Top, receiving the good girls’ glares.

Lorna was like a sculpture carved by some Greek out of marble.

The moths were the things that invaded, like a bad man’s touch.

Ann Beattie in a wonderful reading of her story “Find and Replace."

I blush whenever that room in Ensenada comes to mind.

I’d have guessed the winter this way, every bitter plum already singing.

Theirs was a free fall that went on and on. If it’s time to fall, let’s fall.

The jealous Othello, ready for murder, was transformed into a school-boy.

I’m alive, Sarah thinks, the slam of his look going all the way in.

The social-media world was ablaze with his daughter’s bagunça.

Welcome to my bed. I have these two beers, do you want them?

our minds are not the same if they were the same you would be here

It is here I learn the speech of men. The speechless guilt of every swig.

I drag my sheets as Earth drags her tangled mess of tides.

Imagine the world you want to live in; make the world in this image.

The pupils are toothpicks. The lake is a sky with a circle beneath.

He loves me. That’s half enough: he’s the only man around.

i was a wild thing down by the river, quiet like wild things are.

Elsewhere, perhaps here too, regimes stagger, a congress ends.

I'll pick a black card of luck for you: star, pinkmoon, mirror, ostrich eye.

His flannel sleeve dangled into the flame. Pretty soon, I was on fire too.

Our father crumbled after her affair. We watched him for signs of cracking.

Maybe he was preparing for a disaster that would never happen.

I thought about the little graveyard where the man would be laid.

he has come to write like nervous wasps in my mind like a grocery list.

Her trust in me is a swirled marble sinking slowly in an aqua pool.

When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

I must tell you what it is like to be human, or you will drift away.