call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers

Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker

she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...