Language
First the marching band and the Veterans with their burnt limbs—hardly the chiseled imagery of recruitment ads—then, finally, the Bacon Babes. Perched atop a decommissioned…
In the kitchen Lloyd is wringing its neck like a wet washcloth. Seconds ago, the cat was smug. It hooked the bacon frying on the…
The broad was a bartender in Nevada, but not in Las Vegas. Not in Reno either. The broad didn’t drink and didn’t have to learn…
My husband’s granddaddy felled the bear upon the rangy earth of Wyoming—the grassy compass back of that American square, a spread- wide book of glory….
Once the patient has had the blastocytes transferred into her uterus, the patient must closely monitor pregnancy symptoms by tying a spoon to a string…
Freud has warned women about men who stutter because they are likely to be disappointing in bed. But a speech therapist from the School of…
There have been days of mountains and byways, of corn and conifer, and tonight we stumble into Ohio half-drunk on petrol. These roads are clean…
I am caught between the paneling and sheetrock in my parents’ bedroom. It has been many days. Well, here time goes unbraiding itself; there’s no…
I know at once that I shouldn’t look, but his shirt is off and the paper white of his skin is superimposed with the feeling…
The trains move only at midnight. The deer keep appearing out of timber. In all directions swelling: it is cosmic, in a sense. Coming slowly…