no bags, no carriage 20 Shekels an hour that spark crazy about Hermann ‘no foreplay, yes’ slides and swings in the garden not to be scratched open in the back
About Alison Leslie Gold
Posts by Alison Leslie Gold:
Knowing and not knowing (from V.S.Naipaul)
strange and not strange knowing and not knowing give a prize in flowers with runnels of filth higher or upper parts friendly to my father fighting only for himself always in the background like a family grey-brown with dirt came to the red house turning wide pages a hundred years before when(…)
After work (from N.Mohamed)
Ballroom or bar (from H.Spurling)
no siblings leaving no money steady supply of fresh fractures four packs of hounds a homosexual husband might explain force a prudent marriage almost alarming convicted of cradle snatching inate spite ballroom or bar at the end of October a purple-pink ribbon self-control had not improved
Ebbing defiance (from D.Bezmozgis)
we’ve been west with due indifference into the darker foothills none but God should overhear still, ceremony or no the silhouette of the Crimean Mountains baring the censor’s seals a disfigurement with ebbing defiance married to a sly, embittered hag a need like hunger to the Chekhov Museum every brackish want the embers
A sip of the Nile (from Y.El Rashidi)
was blistering fish, the bottom of the sea lemons at the traffic light thin like Mama green peppers and zucchini on the counter once Egypt and Sudan a triangle every friday in Arabic, numbers the old Egyptian flag his lips were painted pink a sip of the Nile and Cleopatra Cigarettes she was the(…)
Hanging behind the door (from H.Matar)
his friend, but not quite along with the tobacco and lighter flint embracing in public like a snoring guard dog not juice, tea, coffee heavy coats lie in the sun all day the secret work brown, green and silver all at once knowing, ironic dozing like father so few non-Arabs speak Arabic only when(…)
Unexplored ( from R.Goodwin)
the size of the world in gold immense, but unexplored be central in 1536 men and horses were weak of horseshoe nails
Forget this life (from J.Conrad)
splendid future and Nina would grow young again distinct clink some convent in Java profits bigger still here and there a dim light forget this life all in all almost happy tonight, Nina all in all to each other her own savage names heavy work and fierce love domestic misfortune not unmixed with wonder(…)
Uncle Al was looking at me (from B.Crystal)
Uncle Al was looking at me goin’ smell the same black socks and sandals her pocketbook when women snore there are butterflies 1973, her the size of a toupee wooly three piece suits light bulbs and whisk brooms the voice of Mickie Mouse make sure to pack our props another family before(…)
