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The end’s already in motion, the end was starting this whole time.

How many gods do you believe in? How many good men?

She’s not the same, her body more naked in its aging, its disorder.

Mostly, though, you could turn them in your hand, hold them to your nose.

If party isn’t what we set out to do then you should go home.

Relief workers tore swaths of insulation from the rafters of the house.

Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

I arrange your five deflating basketballs under the lonely net.

She had come to the scene where she needed to get them in bed.

Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

The proper qualities of each sex are eternally surprising to the other.

In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.

My dear, even my ear is trying to eat itself in its attempt to forget you.

I continue composing my love letter, hoping to love her more.

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

You are with outsized footnotes that have tracked across the Internet.

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

Put out to pasture, flop down into clover, alternate to the glue factory.

I remember a field too long as the stem of a pear chosen in Upstate.

Fly through 13 billion years of history in this graphic story.

Eight years, and she was ready to call it quits. They were both ready.

Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.

We are everlasting. A friend is a friend is a friend in a string of lives.

It was the year we learned to wash our hands. That was one lesson.

My daughter swallows arrows of sunlight on her way to the grave.

It’d only take a slight shift to realize his new world isn’t a danger to him.

I don’t remember being born, only the great dog whose fur I clung to.

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