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Youthexpand_moreSometimes one does wade into it or is ambushed as by a incensed fog.
Later in the pale of dawn your hair brushed across my forearm.
“Jesus Christ,” Dad said, after the counselor spelled it out for him.
Put out to pasture, flop down into clover, alternate to the glue factory.
Joshua was well versed in things to which I was not yet privy, like sex.
Is there some one way a guy should be on his wedding day, dickwad?
Loss. That word echoed in my ears as my eyes ranged around the garden.
Our neighbors the Bells are watching, watching us when we play outside.
The rifle slams into my shoulder. Smoke pummels the air.
Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.
The beer and the kissing and the lateness of the hour had got to me.
Doisneau might have eyed and shot us for how brazenly we kissed.
I don’t remember being born, only the great dog whose fur I clung to.
This kind of childhood stuck with a person, twisted things up.
You must not be afraid of what waits after death, my past self says.
She was wanting to be noticed as a person not wanting to be noticed.
A branch breaks and the body lands the wrong way. Snapping is easy.
His name is Lloyd. He lives on Percival. He’s super creepy.
How can we go on believing each day won’t be the one that flames out?
The Renaissance mastered the illusion of depth on a flat plane.
In my eyes is the flame of the adolescent he wants to hire.
I received a surprise invitation to a tryout camp at Ebbets Field.
I wanted just to like chemistry, because my teacher hailed from Georgia.
I have so many questions for you, for you are closer to me than anyone.
We’d open our mouths and sink, trying to make an ocean of ourselves.
Imagine first the mighty blast. And then the mushroom cloud.
Finger tracing the terrain, you hold me through autumn’s loss of color.
My mother taught me to rebel within the boundaries of acceptability.
Art is a way for the mind to master the body, even if it is not one’s own.
I was nagged by those boxes from my old life stacked in the garage.
