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Monthly Archives: November 2010
only your skin
same height, i am 12 times her clothing size and my friends call me skinny. her full-length mirror is too heavy to pack, plus shelly shouldn’t really have it anyway. funhouses stretch sideways, so she gives it to me. like … Continue reading
Obama Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Dec. 10, 2009. Oslo, Norway. There is a door, and you walk in. This is necessary, you say, you will save them. There is a prize, smaller than your palm, which glistens with flashbulbs. Nov. 9, 2009. Kabul, Afghanistan. They … Continue reading
Oranges and windows
Way back at the beginning, you said something mean, unfair. I dialed your mother’s number hoping that hearing her voice would make you see the light. I held the phone up in the air between us. We could hear her: … Continue reading
Survivor
The multiple troubles of man, my brother, like slander and pain, amaze you? Consider the heart which holds them all in strangeness, and doesn’t break. Shmuel HaNagid, Hebrew poet of Muslim Spain (993-1056) I am Yeats according to Auden. For … Continue reading