You should know that

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left … Read more

Now, now,\\\” said Vale

Now, now,\” said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. \”I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie.\”Reynaud raised his eyebrows. \”You did?\”\”He did not,\” Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. \”I threw him down the stairs.\”Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. \”Not my recollection, but I can … Read more

Dear Angel Juan, You

Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in … Read more

taking her hand he

taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita’s last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded … Read more

That thing, that moment,

That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that youre supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and … Read more

The summer ends and

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to … Read more