“He was wrong. I could take the ark. I could even take his marvelously fucked fingers. The way they almost glittered. It was the...

“Not knowing that I watched, fat men ate meat; fat man drank wine made of the rice; fat men sat on naked little girls.” When asked what...

“I think of Neihl Bohr’s assertion that there is no deep reality, and I know exactly what he means. I am looking through the woman I am...

“Rounding out the small brown hill I wanted to call a mountain but knew its size would not allow it that, I realized I had to circle...

“With makeup gone I was undeniably warm and living, and I shook with the realization that perhaps we were not as beautiful as we were...

“You want to find yourself in the flow of time, miraculously relieved of your irrelevance.” Outside the neighborhood buzzed with the roar...

“In its liberal zeal to understand, to accept, to heal, it reduces the grand tragicomedy of love and lust to a Hallmark card.” There were...

“He says the feeling you got from it was like the sun coming up in your head.” The other day, B became interested in the link between...

“…they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up...

“She is forty-five and is writing a book about self-hypnosis.” The little worlds everyone keeps inside of them, the way we have to...

“…see under pathos. The quality that arouses pity. Pathetic. Affecting the emotions of pity, grief, or sorrow. Sadly inadequate....

“It was a hugely energetic night, filled with the wonder of this gentle genetic modification that the entire dining room believed it was...

“Now that I have read your magazine, I know for sure that you are a commie, lesbian, long-haired dyke, witch, slut, who dates negroids.”...

“We start with a quick montage.” There are times when a montage of my life would have been interesting. When it might have cut from a...

“I placed it on pause and made a cup of Nescafe, slipped on a hoodie, and went outside and sat on my stoop. It was a cold, clear night. A...

“Boy Baby, who was man and child among the great and dusty guns, lay down on the newspaper bed and wept for a thousand years.” Boy Baby,...

“As with the image of the waning and waxing moon, there is something malleable about their features, and they are natural mimics, too.”...

He drew one elaborate sketch of me riding a horse that just about took the breath out of me. I was both beautiful and muscled, like the...

“There is a prevailing hypothesis to why whales, in droves, will beach themselves on land. When the first whale becomes stranded, it...

“And then we liked the bars with their spiderwebs, the darkness and the tight mesh of the grating that, reddish with rust, curled up both...