sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money