Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before.
What is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can’t be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone.
Violated by bloodshed and gluttony and pride and disdain. Say their Names.
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
This could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. That is what we are now. The circumstances...
They sleep, they can be startled, even there in the soothing of the heart, like waves on the shore around them. A
There are some things that do not fare well in high definition.
The reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I’ll be dead, you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the...
Take your time, leave mine alone
It was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lig...
I)We are hard on each otherand call it honesty,choosing our jagged truthswith care and aiming them acrossthe neutral table.The things we say are true; it is our crooked aims, our choicesturn them crim...
Her voice of raw egg white.
Her own marriage had been arranged, would things have turned out any worse than they did? Is it fair, to send inexperienced young girls out into the wild forest to fend for themselves? Girls with big...
All she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money,
A handful of crumpled stars
A good portion of the women in the Asylum were no madder than the Queen of England. Many were sane enough when sober, as their madness came out of a bottle, which is a kind I knew very well. One of th...
[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connota...
Your legacy from him is the realm of infinite speculation. You're free to reinvent yourself at will.
You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint,...