He was as hungry for love as I. He lay in his cave or castle longing for the doctor's lovely nurse, the archeologist's terrific assistant while I hid in my bedroom, acne lighting up the gloom like a stoplight, wondering if anybody anywhere would ever marry me. I was hardly able to stay in my [...]
Maxine, back from a weekend with her boyfriend, smiles like a big cat and says that she’s a conjugated verb. She’s been doing the direct object with a second person pronoun named Phil, and when she walks into the room, everybody turns: some kind of light is coming from her head. Even the geraniums look [...]
Psalm The only psalm I had memorized was the 23rd and now I find myself searching for the order of the phrases knowing it ends with surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever only I remember seeing a [...]
Kryptonite Lois liked to see the bullets bounce off Superman's chest, and of course she was proud when he leaned into a locomotive and saved the crippled orphan who had fallen on the tracks. Yet on those long nights when he was readjusting longitude or destroying a meteor headed right for some nun, Lois considered [...]
And it won't help any, it won't get us anywhere, it won't wipe away what has been nor hold off what is to be, if you hear me saying love is a little white bird and the flight of it so fast you can't see it and you know it's there only by the faint [...]