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Out to Lunch

“Out to lunch,” she learns from an older colleague, is a euphemism.

Outside Elko

The sedan clipped their front bumper and pitched Bill’s car into a slide.

Over Easy

I was never nonchalant. I was more intense than Kirk Douglas.

Overdue

Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.

Owakare: The Great Parting

The stories of terror continued well after the tsunami had passed.

Owen Hart

Owen falls. Like a dummy. Like he’s dead even before he dies.

Oysters

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.

Paean for Dinner Dates with Sarah

We are everlasting. A friend is a friend is a friend in a string of lives.

Papi

The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.

Pardoning

My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.

Parts & Labor

Near to closing, he’d flop down in the chair to count his moldy money.

People (Interlude)

She was wanting to be noticed as a person not wanting to be noticed.

People Fall All the Time

A branch breaks and the body lands the wrong way. Snapping is easy.

Perfect for Any Occasion

A pie can’t go to college, work hard for the grades, two jobs on the side.

Performance Anxiety

The eyes of men were drawn, numb and automatic, to her youthfulness.

Perishables

Chuck had a grin, but Mike kept his eyebrows raised, very curious.

Phonograph Mouth

I say aria, scale of the day, weigh each square foot she’s kept up.

Pig Shit Cannon

The Renaissance mastered the illusion of depth on a flat plane.

Pimp

In my eyes is the flame of the adolescent he wants to hire.

Plutonium

I wanted just to like chemistry, because my teacher hailed from Georgia.

Poems from OBIT

Death is our common ancestor. It doesn’t care who we have dined with.

Poetry and Ambition

American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.

Poetry Readings from Our Interview with Don

Let us stifle under mud and affirm it is fitting and delicious to lose everything.

Poet’s Work

Grandfather advised me: learn a trade. I learned to sit at a desk.

Polyamory

Cory only hires stoners so he has something on them if they try blackmail.

Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Woman

My mother taught me to rebel within the boundaries of acceptability.

Poser

Art is a way for the mind to master the body, even if it is not one’s own.

Preparing the Body for Viewing

A real or imagined boundary, crossed. End of the line. Lined out.

Primal

To me, the very point of cooking is to wildly praise what’s wild.

Prime Green

A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.