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The Village

The golden-haired ones, they think they’re better than Virgin Mary.

The Well Diggers

She wonders if he will be all right. She assumes he has four-wheel drive.

The Western Tailor

You never see Westerners, so you don’t think of them as human beings.

The Winter Soldier

He was ready to move on, to touch his patients, to cut them open.

Thinking It Through

His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.

Thirst

Our ambition was a clawing, grasping thing. It got us out of bed.

Thirteen Months Unemployed

They are glorious pumpkin-skinned messengers. I hate them.

This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking

“We’re not like other species,” you say, a novelist at night.

Three Poems

Let’s walk down to the river, bless the paper boats and turn it all into wine.

Three Poems

David Lee

Three Poems

Three Poems

If life was exchanged, who is to say it flowed one way?

Three Poems

A goddess was offended; her altar required my virgin blood.

Three Poems

In my head at least, you thrive, you die in this mix of ghost and gone.

Three Poems

Is anybody out there? Nobody answered, and I felt archaic as prayer.

Three Stages of Amazement

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

Tina Turner and My Father

Ike’s voice left behind on the shore as Tina plunges in again.

Titan

My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.

Titan

My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.

To Save a Butterfly

Yes, Eylon thought, he lied to Cath. Lied about his day, about the risks.

To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All

I love scientists. They’re trying their hardest. And they just want love.

Tom Jenks on Editing The Garden of Eden

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was edited by Tom Jenks.

Top Dog

“The kiels take extra time, but then you know your meats. Questions?”

Totality

The strange man expected to be picked up by aliens during the eclipse.

Tradition and the Individual Talent

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

Train Dreams

He twisted like a weasel in the sack, lashing backward with his fist.

True Believers

Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.

Trump: The Nature of His Game

Trump reminded me of the guys I grew up with on Long Island.

Trust

They all pivoted to face us, tan mannequins on a conveyor belt.

Twenty-One People between My Legs (and Counting)

Who needs driftwood when I can bury myself in your loamy soil.