Monthly Archives: May 2010
“The Poisoner’s Wife” and “The Ask it Man”
the poisoner’s wife in the cool like lemonade of a hot summer’s day he went as though it were unto a pool the sodium he administered made us a great salt cellar with appurtenances of a modern-day Cellini the furnishings … Continue reading
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My Neighbor’s Secret
A few days after I moved to Atlanta, about twenty years ago, I came home from my new teaching job at Georgia State to find my grass mowed and a lanky white man in his sixties wearing overalls and a … Continue reading
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Let me do this, now
Let me do this, now: I’ll drag you down there, down, down, where you will feel lonelier than I, and less delicate, less alive, somehow, jealous of my moving body, in the lights, itself a shifting light. See, love, this … Continue reading
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Awake and Exiles
awake The furnace-black odor of cigarettes made acid shadows where you slept — it took me days to smell the cotton clean. It’s a scarred pleasure of mercy to stop feeling you near me, finally. I may have spit the … Continue reading
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