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Talking to Grief

Ah, Grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish.…

4 tygodnie temu

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The Mutes

Those groans men use passing a woman on the street or on the steps of the subway to tell her she is a female and their flesh knows it, are they a sort of tune, an ugly enough song, sung by a bird with a slit tongue but meant for music?…

4 tygodnie temu

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Living

The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, each day the last day. A red salamander so cold and so easy to catch, dreamily…

4 tygodnie temu

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A Woman Alone

When she cannot be sure which of two lovers it was with whom she felt this or that moment of pleasure, of something fiery streaking from head to heels, the way the white flame of a cascade streaks a mountainside seen from a car across a valley, the car…

4 tygodnie temu

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The Broken Sandal

Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke. Nothing to hold it to my foot. How shall I walk?                 Barefoot? The sharp stones, the dirt. I would hobble. And– Where was I going? Where was I going I can’t go to now, unless hurting? Where am I standing, if I’m…

4 tygodnie temu

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To the Reader

As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian are watching the generations of leaves, and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

4 tygodnie temu

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