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hittingrod

He was caught. Of course he was caught. He was always caught.

Home Help

It dawned on me my passion was not for her but for the making-up.

Homecoming

I walk over to her for what seems to be an eternity. “May I have this dance?”

Hoopster

If I weaseled out of Bible study a little early, he’d speed me to the gym.

Hope

Snug in the spell of a cradle rocking, I remember the first time I floated.

Horse & Rider, Part 1

This kind of heart-wrenching love was different from all the others.

Horse & Rider, Part 4

I’m not the girl for anyone. I can’t just go be a wife.

Horse & Rider, Part 5

Eliza Frye

Hours in a Library

The great season for reading is between eighteen and twenty-four.

How Do We Bury the Dead

How do we bury
the dead stacking up against our picture window?

How Fish Learned to Sing

It’s impossible to identify where your voice ends and the magnitude begins.

How I Left a Life of Crime and Came to America

We were aiming for a complete transformation of society.

How Sex Feels: A Reverie

He begins to realize that the impossible event may well be about to occur.

How to Be a Real Indian

Claim to be Choctaw or Cherokee. Claim to be a princess too.

How to Defy Gravity

“I know I am disabled. Technically. But I don’t feel that way.”

How to Disappear

For who can escape one’s twenties or browser history?

How to Talk to Your Mother

Ask your mother about babies. Ask her about the baby that died.

Huntington, Connecticut

I Believe

We agreed: no hearts, no flowers, just courteous, no-strings sex.

I Can See Your Underpants

She’s a blushing peach waiting to be plucked by practiced hands.

I Shut My Eyes & Doors in Me Fly Open

I could untie Minnie’s silk, restitch it into places I’ve lived.

Ice Fishing

I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.

Idolatry

Marie was Indian, and everything Indian required patience.

If I Could Speak Chinese

On the small of my daughter’s back is a two-inch tattoo. MADE IN CHINA.

In Defense of Ballin’ on a Budget

To get the job, always stay starched, creased to death.

In the Car before School

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

In the Guise of Couplets

Every room came furnished half-real & dead like mirrors on skin

In the Kitchen

The child writes, Child, and is amazed at this word on the page.

Indira

Everyone roared at her wit. Ravenous children prowled like tigers.

Interview with a Moron

Interviewer said he had no intention of stealing anything from Subject.