I cannot change the way a tree watches me walking by. She does not know that I too have immovable roots.

I cannot change the way a frog analyzes my

"Do you want more?", asked my dentist, a question he has asked hundreds of suffering men and women.

I have been told:

Red sky holds meaning.

I have been warned:

If you search for fame, you may find it.

A girl was there. Right where you're standing now. She was a young girl. Too young to understand very many things about the world. She was homely, maybe even ugly. Her head wide at the top and narrow at the chin, but squarish on both ends. A trapezoid head, mostly forehead with two eyes like most everyone. Green.

Sometimes Alice would see kids, teenagers, in love or whatever and she would become confused and angry. Alice couldn't understand why they couldn't see what was coming. Or maybe they could and were just postponing the inevitable,

I had a dream that I tried to drown myself, and in doing so inhaled mouthful after mouthful of briny lake water. In my dream the water went through me like air and I could not die.

You are no insomniac

But a sentry, stationed here at night

Cigarette rifle and sweater uniform

Invisible children, ours.

(Yours and mine.)

With chubby hands and invisible green

I just saw this happen, I swear. A white-haired man walked into the car and sat on a sleeping Korean man. Like sat on him, not halfway like he was trying to fit into a small adjacent space. There

The boy clenched his teeth together until they creaked like old wood. His hands covered his ears and his eyes were shut tight. He sat on a hay bale, back to the plywood wall, bent over, head between knees. He was trying to create

I went to an orchard at night.

I climbed the fence in the dark and what I beheld took me by no small surprise. The moon illuminated the trees with silver light, and each one held more apples than I could possibly have imagined!

After ten minutes, my dog is happy to see me.

After a full day of work, there are chalk drawings on the sidewalk.

The dishes in the rack are dry.

A spider has begun a web in the corner of the window frame.