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…

A week later, I said to a friend:… think I could ever write about it. Maybe in a year I could write som… There is something in me maybe som… to be written; now it is folded, a…

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…

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…

Afterwards, when we have slept, pa… comaed and woken, we lie a long ti… looking at each other. I do not know what he sees, but I… eyes of surpassing tenderness

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…

But I love the I, steel I-beam that my father sold. They poured t… into the mold, and it fed out slow… a bending jelly in the bath, and i… Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy…

She was four, he was one, it was r… we had been in the apartment two w… I grabbed her to keep her from sho… face, again, and when I had her wr… in my grasp I compressed it, fierc…

Three months after he lies dead, t… long yellow narrow body, not like Christ but like one of hi… the naked ones in the paintings wh… done in gilt, all knees and raw ri…

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…

I did not stand at the altar, I s… at the foot of the chancel steps,… and the minister stood on the top… holding the open Bible. The churc… was wood, painted ivory inside, no…

Three years after my father’s deat… he goes back to work. Unemployed for twenty-five years, he’s very g… to be taken on again, shows up on time, tireless worker. He sits

The ambulance men touched her cold body, lifted it, heavy as iron, onto the stretcher, tried to close… mouth, closed the eyes, tied the arms to the sides, moved a caught

Sometimes I can almost see, aroun… Like gnats around a streetlight in… The children we could have, The glimmer of them. Sometimes I feel them waiting, do…