As I reach to close each book lying open on my desk, it leaps up to snap at my fingers. My legs won’t hold me, I must sit down. My fingers pain me

Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf… is to let rain fall nakedly upon your he… is to respect fire, is to study man’s eyes and his gestures as he talks,

We drop in the evening like dew upon the ground and the living feel it on their faces. Death soft, moist everywhere upon us, soon to cover the living

As she walked she would look back over her shoulder and trip upon sidewalk cracks or bump into people to whom she would apologize profusely, her head still turned.

Wherever he looks, standing still in the… are people born of coupling, walking in… and ties, in long dresses and coiffed ha… speaking elegantly, of themselves and of… forgetting for the moment their origin,

I stand and listen, head bowed, to my inner complaint. Persons passing by think I am searching for a lost coin. You’re fired, I yell inside

It’s midnight, the house silent, in the distance a musical instrument being played softly. I am alone. It’s as if the world has come to an end on a low musical note

She was saying mad things: ‘To hell with the world! Love is all you need! Go on and get it! What are you waiting for!’ and she walked,

Late in 1962 New York newspapers report… old child being raped on a roof, and hur… ground. I draw near to the roof’s edge and seek someone to lift

Whatever we do, whether we light strangers’€™ cigarettes’€”it may turn ou… to be a detective wanting to know who is… with a light on a lonely street nights’€… or whether we turn away and get a knife

You wept in your mother’s arms and I knew that from then on I was to forget myself. Listening to your sobs, I was resolved against my will

I close my eyes like a good little boy a… as I was told to do by my mother when sh… and before bed I brush my teeth and slip… as I was told, and look forward to tomor… I do all things required of me to make m…

In a dream I’m no longer in love. I bre… and I vow never again to seal myself in,… also and that too is a kind of sealed co… care of my body and its home accommodati… appearance that I admire in the mirror,…

I’m very pleased to be a body. Can ther… As you hold mine I feel firmly assured… and I think all life is a body. I’m hap… especially with the sun shining on it. I… I have hurt the body. That’s when I kno…

Earth hard to my heels bear me up like a child standing on its mother’s belly. I am a surprised guest to the air