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What direction does your sentence move: you belonging to the land or the land belonging to you.This ...

Lynch de Alabama. Rabo en forma de látigo y pezuñas terciarias. Suele manifestarse con una gran cruz...

I get good at pretending that I don’t blame you for his death, and this is all it takes to keep you...

Men as a subject Oof They are hard to believe in They fax prose out of their mouths When they are pleased...

I did not know it was possible (your constancy being among your chief characteristics) and I, bereft...

I used to thinkthere was only one of Youbefore the miscarriage.Now, I am not so sure.Maybe there are...

Between us, there are one hundred oneumber haints in our home.In bed, we discussour future, our children...

We were ravaged by our loss, our child. In the shower, slightly past midnight,after I’d covered the ...

1A path through the woods winds along a stream that flows into the ocean.I look up at new leaves on ...

The shipwrecked man creates a monarchy of one. When he sees a footprint, he panics. He has to keep writing...

The vulnerability of the figurehead is at the center of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of Charles I:...

Lynch from Alabama.Tailpiece in the form of a whipand three-pointed hooves.Tends to appearwith a great...

Este animal se llama policía.Plantígrado soplador.Variedades: la inglesa, sherlock. (Pipa).Carter, la...

This animal calls itself police.Whistling plantigrade.Varieties: the English, Sherlock. (Pipe.)Carter...

No wrought iron bars like the door at my Aunt Cherry’s house on the East Side, her husband Ben always...

which Timbaland claims inspired Aaliyah’s“Are You That Somebody,” a great song, yes,you must agree, ...

He grew up being curious And thinking things are various. Nothing was merely deleterious Or spurious...

Life for my child is simple, and is good.He knows his wish. Yes, but that is not all.Because I know ...

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet,(Only a while, for the handyman is on his way)These people...

facial “We use Ardena here.” Madame Celeste Herself in charge, with hot tough-handed licks To tighten...