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I could shoot you and nobody would say boo. I’m within my rights.

Soledad is the name a woman is given, a sentence a woman must serve.

They know whoever passes on the curving road just by the footstep.

Try to make order in one direction, and things shoot off in another.

This has been a good day. First the milestone of getting to page 300.

I was nineteen and mentally infirm when I saw the prophet Isaiah.

Through all this the sands kept vigil, harboring blood and bones.

His thoughts swirl around him. Maybe women aren’t women anymore.

On Christmas Day, we lost one of our great advocates for poetry.

I would slip the hook under the sow’s chin, hold my breath, and pull.

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens her first rose

I know what my promises are worth, know the worth of material things.

This summer I mothered my brother’s death; I brothered my mother’s cancer. My brother and mother died this summer, two of seven billion.

Room painted off-white, so the death rattle can lean off the wall.

He could smell the bear’s breath, feel the hot huff against his ear.

Emil was busy applying his anger therapy, and it was working.

Sometimes the old men held their fishing poles like divinations.

Maybe this was one thing in his life he had done right, or so he hoped.

My cry for the first time fastened garlands of hope to the roof.

Oh brother, the eye of the needle is shaking the weather awake.

Death will come for us so fast we will never be able to outrun it.

The boy imagined his dead grandfather haunting the world.

It was half the Spanish he knew—stop, I have a shotgun.

My sister’s fever wasn’t gone at all, but dazzling—suspended over us.

Up there there’s not a sound except for the wind and the buzzing of bees.

The shadow carves the hours while the Latin inscribes

She had seen him take the crop to a girl for doing nothing at all.

There was a fish. And then there was the consciousness of robots.

She was thinking about what she would say when the time came.