Nanos
- The way she leaves half-full ashtrays at points around the house...
- Sad, eaten away.
- Immobility.
- Surely the reason I haven't called in all this time...
- Sadness, always...
- Her birthday has come and gone...
- Why does it feel so real, if it isn't?
- This is not my life.
- And I think...
- Homeless.
- "If you knew somebody who..."
- The most mysterious thing in the world...
- And the hurts of the children in the movie...
- Burning up...
- What would you do...
- How often?
- Your lover's jewelry...
- "You look exactly like your pictures..."
- With an upturned nose she said, "I read that men's beard's grow faster if they're anticipating sex."
- To write...
- We each feared to become like our fathers.
- "Thank you," she said...
- "This is so much fun!"
- The gentle undulation of the swells...
- Life with her is a selfish brawl.
- An elderly man...
- They knew they were nearing the center of the insect kingdom...
- The planes to freedom...
- And then it snaps...
- Evil world, evil people.
- She was never able to sleep there.
- My loneliness...
- Beside me a train passed...
- Saw the sun break through clouds...
- The silliness of solipsism.
- As her plane left I stood at the end of the pier...
- Panic, shock, slack-jaw, wide-eye, horror, stunned stupid.
- "Are you gay?"
- Firewood burning...
- Large woman, black skirt...
- The word "paradise"...
- As she kissed me she said...
- Sex as communication.
- Mother's a great spy.
- Chambers, chambers, seen through cold water flowing slow like icicles.
- "'Little America', eh?"
- The dialectic of martyrdom and passive aggression.
- So close.
- Tiny puppy, hairless...
- In the dust on the old man's shelves...
- To be a Christian...
- Death.
- The cries of crows.
- "A murder-suicide pact..."
- We are all messages.
- Papeete:
- Sea birds have voices...
- Sunlight on the water to the west...
- The standard passivity.
- I don't think about you.
- Oh?
- Dried moisture, like a landscape of salt pits.
- In retrospect...
- My friends encouraged her.
- Bad shit.
- "Let me tell you about who you should be..."
- It's all about the time you'll never get back.
- Take joy in the struggle.
- Mean people.
- Evil is that force in the universe...
- Bowling ball shaped vanity sack:
- "Now Mark," she said, teaching me a lesson.
- "It's not just that you're stupid..."
- The storm rages upon crumbling cliffs, shouting...
- The safety of immobility.
- The coldest night of my life...
- With her dying breath she'll whisper...
- A fat woman...
- She won't rest...
- Now now now now now now now...
- Vibrance.
- Where is the road?
- "Now, if I were a Vicodin..."
- "Every time you lose at Solitaire..."
- Barking dogs.
- Off the hook...
- "I'm very balanced."
- Life isn't interested in individuals.
- "You do a good job..."
- "I don't know how long you've worked here," she tells the owner.
- Meeting you...
- Her shoes...
- I'm waiting for it to be tomorrow...
- Infidelity.
- Preposterous stories.
- Like she has an identity...
- Subtlety...
- You don't exist.
- Sweetness.
- Wine stains on the couch.
- It's all pain, either way.
- All fear, every day.
- Prison ink on parishioners' arms.
- Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.
- I prayed for her that night.
- Wine...
- To her the most distressing thing in the world...
- To worry is to pray for what you don't want.
- This is how The Devil works us.
- "Thank you," she says...
- Arrests...
- Smiles sarcastically, staggers, flips you off.
- So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold.
- Girl on a bicycle.
- "I feel like Jello..."
- No.
- Guilt as weapon:
- It was a set-up from the get-go.
- Out of the stone blue someone smiles...
- Self-isolation.
- "You've never been committed to me."
- Hyperventilation.
- Good intentions.
- There is no data, there is only lore.
- She watched a hawk take a pigeon.
- There are voices in the rapids.
- As she failed her field sobriety test...
- I wish...
- Flowers from the neighbors.
- Fear.
- "I'm leaving you."
- How the mouse felt...
- Raccoon eyes.
- My one true friend...
- Pain. Anguish. Struggle.
- Life is a cat...
- Insults.
- Exhaustion.
- I knew that she'd done it.
- I never feel more alone...
- She was a dangerous pathogen in search of a host...
- She carries the cat...
- I am an office chair...
- It rained while she died.
- I used to like...
- I don't know.
- Arroz...
- Boats of balsa.
- In the crowd she's like a cork in waves, tossed.
- It's an ugly story...
- A screaming comes across...
- Their boat was named "Faith".
- Lights of the nearest house...
- Eaten by ants.
- Watching the clock.
- Around her all my hurts are homeless.
- She sees herself as Tess Durbeyfield...
- I miss you.
- Amateur cruelty.
- "I don't love you..."
- What did her heartbeat say?
- Angry at her...
- Emerge onto a main street.
- Languishing alone together.
- Life is...
- This is only puzzling if...
- We circled each other for hours...
- She has the great merit of detesting...
- She tried in her way to defeat my anger.
- Terrible kisser.
- We grew fat...
- No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No.
- Separated by so many bonds.
- Confused week...
- The sound of her name makes me happy...
- Love is a dream of a better world.
- Happy.
- Grimly determined...
- Beautiful blonde swimmer...
- Survivor...
- Her voice on the phone...
- Hard to see her go.
- When she moved to kiss me I gave her a cheek...
- Astonishing and genuine...
- "I have too much dignity..."
- You lie awake nights writing letters in your head.
- Won't take chances.
- You make my favorite sound.
- "How many lovers have you had in your life?"
- Needless to say:
- Vertigo.
- We're sometimes very funny together.
- Nevermind.
- Cold night, clear.
- You'd be amazed how death changes a fella.
- Babydog:
- Thinking of not going.
- Taste buds and testicles.
- What does the road sign say...
- Glass in the sky: reflections in heaven.
- What does the street light light...
- Smug.
- Peace and ruins.
- The future as prison...
- Each follows their own path.
- Conflict, acrimony, recrimination.
- Plumed serpent, heart of sky.
- Beatle bones and standing Stones.
- First lines to unwritten poems.
- What the glass door said...
- My friend is very ill.
- The world is so loud.
- You are the worm.
- What commerce with the darkness?