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As a shadow I arouse you will you believe the truth of my mouth.

It was enough to make the most hardened veteran drop his guard.

I broke up fights, bandaged cuts, fielded calls from parents, and sat with the sad or depressed.

I don’t need to consult a healer to feel the aura glowing around us.

The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—

Que voulez-vous? I said. Patisserie, she said and smiled. Pastry, I said. Well, that’s predictable.

We were lying on the grass, sharing a joint. The sun was radiant.

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

Forgive me, please, for continuing to believe that roses are beautiful.

Her blood had been stagnant for close to the total of her years.

He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.

I used to be known for the humor of my music, the lightness of touch.

I was once a rider of mastodons, a waitress showing skin.

The men here don’t know where to place me, call me exotic grail.

When I’m reading him I feel myself come closer to you than usual.

For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.

If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.

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

I was happy I had no one to talk to, to be alone. Happy to be in the hospital.

I hear Tchaikovsky when I close my eyes and pretend I’m flying.

There was an intimacy to the sound that thrilled me.

I was always being left behind in the mud, a bandage around my eyes.

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

The alert says Warning: Wild Exotic Animals Loose.

The new generation doesn’t play war, which is a shame; they text.

Like a bird with a broken wing I will smudge the line of the hopscotch.

You have to be three times better than the white kids, at everything.