Those whose houses were burned burned houses. What else ever happ… once you start? While the roofs plunged into the root-filled cellars,

My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,

An other sense tugs at us: we have lost something, some key to these things which must be writings and are locked against us

The world is full of women who’d tell me I should be ashamed… if they had the chance. Quit danci… Get some self-respect and a day job.

The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear

Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking

She has been condemned to death by… may escape this death by becoming… woman by marrying the hangman. But… time there is no hangman; thus the… There is only a death, indefinitel…

There is nothing to be afraid of, it is only the wind changing to the east, it is only your father the thunder your mother the rain

In winter the beach is empty but south, so there is no snow. Empty can mean either peaceful or desolate. Two kinds of people walk here:

This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size fo… blanks in speech, for those red he… shaped vacancies on the page that… like real hearts. Add lace

Your lungs fill & spread themselve… wings of pink blood, and your bone… empty themselves and become hollow… When you breathe in you’ll lift li… and your heart is light too & huge…

You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost

The puppet of the wolf I have not made yet encloses my right hand: fur stubbles my wrists, a tongue, avid, carnivorous,

Evening comes on and the hills thi… red and yellow bleaching out of th… The chill pines grow their shadows… Below them the water stills itself… a sunset shivering in it.