Sublime

Adam waits, month by month, for the choked black walnut to die and take his baby brother with it, smothered in his own clown-covered coverlet. But both live, which only proves to Adam that life is trying to say something no one hears.

nosegay

Code of A Modern Gentleman 1. Never strike anyone so old, small, or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed. 2. Never steal anything so small that you’ll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum security federal tennis prison. 3. Remember, the truth is rude. Consider the truth about where babies come from, especially

High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable.

huswifes

contrivance,