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Silence, a weapon of choice, hung between them, cut through the air.

Now only the single syllable that is the beloved, that is the world.

They met on the app in April, shortly after her twenty-ninth birthday.

Oh, how did people do it? How did they find some way to be happy?

The first time she’d touched his body, it had been like going back in time.

Part of my desire to be in London related to its writers.

Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.

Jennifer Haigh

Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.

“Can’t you see Hemingway’s having breakfast with his grandson?”

“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”

She’d do anything once, to know what it was like.

He’s an excellent student. It’s just that . . . he thinks ideas are real.

It’s other things than the like of you would make a person afeard.

Bodies, moths, destroyers. Fear like finding a bullet in a snowman.

I decide it’s as good a place as any to stop, pant & smell the roses—

We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.

He picked up the knife I had there, and said he’d kill me if ever I told.

I realized you were my fourth love, and the system was always doomed.

Daofu was a cluster of lights bubbling up in the belly of a darkened plain.

A landscape values people at the level that it values other things.

It is February in Ukraine. Juliana tells the reporter she just wants to live in her country.

My wife fell in love with a dancer. A woman. I came here to get away.

The neighbors were Ukrainians with bad tempers and owned guns.

At nineteen I lived for three months as an earnest cocaine addict.

I could throw one of these rocks at the moon and watch it fall.

They wrapped him in bandages from all three kits. The old man watched them.

“You could come, too! No one’s forcing you to go to fucking China.”

I will leave the pills in their bottles, I will leave the bottles by my bed.