I lay in bed after that, and felt her presence out there on the grass. I couldn't have drunk myself unconscious if I'd wanted to. I got up around three in the morning and went back out into the front room to look at her, but she was gone and the light in the tent was back on. The two of them were unable to leave it alone, this relationship that ( Read more... )

start to etch your face into my immediate memory
can conjure you up so quickly--
the time it takes to blink

back a tear.

--

truant, playing hooky. slouch.
to bleed is to bloom
 barren beauty
in its near completeness

--

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well, too cool,
is a crime nowadays.


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At the end of a season, my heart grinds
The difficult into what can be made plain
-First the mind, then the pain -
I crank up the levers, the pulleys, the weights, and
then/

With what speed do I strip away
Snow, unlearn seasons, flowers' names -

-from The Inevitable Place, Ana Maria Katigbak

Some people claim ( Read more... )

When I tell you that you have an effect ( Read more... )

This French-Syrian guy once said that I was le parfait. He told my friend, in French, that he found me charming and intelligent and funny. In French! In fucking French! I got raved about in French ( Read more... )

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