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When The War-Father Appears
i can see the worst all right — the earth exploding in some climactic chain reaction and all of us going off sparking out at the same time and i think i am going to like it if it happens that way after all we’ll be learning something together something massive that we’ve been trying to understand for a while and in that final sparking and arcing of the earth’s blow-up we’ll finally get it we’ll understand
January 1985How To Keep Love Alive
Learning the proper name for magic; laughing at each other’s faults; finding meaning daily, providing reasons for waking every dawn
December 1984Telling The Truth
An unannounced visit, a four-year-old makeup artist, a dead parrot
October 1984The Man In The Control Booth
Wycke, I knew, had thought of his eyes as prisms, capable of seeing many points of view at once. They sat in deep dark sockets, alert, cautious, and ever vulnerable, like two small animals uneasy in their burrows.
September 1984Washing Dishes
In group homes, in the creek, with passive-aggressive breakage
September 1984Journeys
To a wedding reception in Buffalo, across the endless Atlantic, with LSD to a raki bottle with a note inside
August 1984
