As our daughter approaches graduat… puberty at the same time, at her own, calm, deliberate, serious rat… she begins to kick up her heels, j… hands, thrust out her hipbones, ch…

I see them standing at the formal… I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, th… red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I

When we talk about when to tell th… we are so together, so concentrate… I mutter, ‘I feel like a killer.’… the killer’—taking my wrist-he say… holding it. He is sitting on the c…

In the middle of the night, when w… after making love, we look at each… complete friendship, we know so fu… what the other has been doing. Bou… like mountaineers coming down from…

Everything has been taken that any… thought worth taking. The stairs a… scattered with sycamore leaves cur… like ammonites in inland rock. Wood shows through the paint on th…

The first ones were attached to my… at the waist, one on either side, right at the point where hands cou… pick you up, as if you were a hot squeeze bottle of tree syrup, and…

In the back of the charm-box, in a… canines and incisors are mostly ch… by now, split kernels and acicular… whole utensils left: half an adz; half a shovel, in its brok…

To say that she came into me, from another world, is not true. Nothing comes into the universe and nothing leaves it. My mother—I mean my daughter did…

Now I come to look at love in a new way, now that I know I’m… standing in its light. I want to a… almost-no-longer husband what it’s… love, but he does not want to talk…

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant… savages. You come in with a bag, hold it out to me in silence. I know Moo Shu Pork when I smell…

Then dirt scared me, because of th… he had put on her face. And her tr… scared me—the newspapers, morning… kept saying it, training bra, as if the cups of it had been call…

It was night, it had rained, there… half-cars strewn, it was still, an… a woman was lying on the highway,… with her head curled back and tuck… so the back of her head touched he…

In the taxi alone, home from the a… I could not believe you were gone.… creeping over the smooth plastic to find your strong meaty little h… squeeze it, find your narrow thigh…