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Requiem

Isn’t it nice to think tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes yet?

Resolution

Someone’s walk is pretty much who they are, from the beginning.

Respectability and Other Poems

Carte blanche is bodily as chalk on dark asphalt, so enliven these eyes.

Restless

If this farmer worried about her husband, he gave no sign.

Restorations

Fortyish, give or take, each of them correctly estimates the other to be.

Reverend Thornhill’s Wife

Her previous existence seemed unreal, now, a faint rumor.

Revision

She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.

Revisiting

I was bold, even reckless, in what I wrote, and in how I wrote it.

Reynolds Price

Rhymes with Thigh Gap and Other Poems

Richard

He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.

Ride

Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.

River Song

Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.

Roman Couplets and Other Poems

I am left with little Rome for error. I choose wrong, then I revise.

Roommates

Annette. Such a little bit of a person. Emma couldn’t get over it.

Rooster Hour

What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?

Rosemary

A wildness and all the ways I could never be classy enough for pearls.

Rouses Point

It was as if the stranger in the train carriage had taken out a knife.

Rubrics

“I’ve already submitted the course grades,” Costa said warily.

Russell Chatham the Painter, Recently Hospitalized, Emerges from Seven-Figure Debt and Alcoholism, Ready to Paint

An eye trained only for darkness makes for a lesser path, in art as in life.

Safety

Tomorrow I’ll be ratted out about the hunting, but I knew it’d be worth it.

Sagrada Familia

“Look in my eyes. Do I look like someone who has heard this story?”

Samaritan

Throwing the El Camino into drive, he roared down the mountain road.

Satellites

The alert says Warning: Wild Exotic Animals Loose.

Saved

By the end of my trip to St. Thomas, I had discovered a reason to live.

Saving Planet Earth

The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.

Savior Games

When we move together in the dark I can almost get to him but I turn back.

Schooling

Sing to your sisters in the water, let your arms and lashes flutter.

Sea Horse

Had he been a man, we could’ve saved his life right then and there.

Second First Night

She alone knew how he could be swept up, tender interior laid bare.