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White Space

We can be naked in black light, the smell of unwash and old pot.

Wild Snow

My job requires me to make things disappear like a Vegas magician.

Willamette Shipyard Blues

Oh they pay me well. I make a small fortune. Yes they pay me well.

Windward Ho!

Dad is catnip to the lady residents. He’s tall and lean, plus he’s got all his hair.

Wings, 1999

América, make me wings large enough to carry me back and forth.

Winter Dreams

Dexter was unconsciously dictated to by his winter dreams.

Wives

Her mother singing out the window at trucks slamming the other way.

Women from Mars

He never stopped reminding me that I was born in Harmony, Georgia.

Work

You’re going to have a difficult life if you can’t figure out where to stand.

Worksong

No one else ever seemed to mind working side-by-side a murderer.

Writer’s Cottage

Something is wrong with that place. Someone’s still there . . .

Writing

Literary gatherings are a nightmare because writers have no shop talk.

Years of Experience with Bows and Arrows

You’re supposed to hit is the bull’s-eye, that black spot, precise spot.

Yeats on Wilde

“The basis of literary friendship is mixing the poisoned bowl.”

Yokai

“Ki o tsukete!” she called, and he knew the words. Be careful.

You Are Merely Part of This

You’ve seen her almost every day, going to and from the gardens.

You Can’t Keep Going Like This

Not the Olympics, the guard said. Just chuck yourself down the tube.

Youth

“O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!”

You’re Part of This Too

It was the way of the world: everybody wanted someone else.