let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...