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Yellowstone Memoir
"If only they had known," Chickadee sang, "that I was crying 'Fire!'"
Attachment Ambiguity
"If someone said to me," he said, "'All we have to do to fix things between you is cut off your right leg,' I'd say, 'Oh. Ok.'"
She held him all night while they slept.
Two weeks later, she left.
"I can't love you crippled," she said.
"It's Ok," he said. "Neither can I."
The Starving Man
There was a man starving in the desert. He was no fool. He lived economically. When he found the sign, he waited till twilight to read it.
"There will be food here at Christmas. Hope you can make it."
They found his bones somewhere, one day.
Answering Machine
He called her. There was no answer.
She called him. There was no answer.
He called her. There was no answer.
He called her. There was no answer.
She called him. He was not home.
He called her.
Voice Mail
"Fiction," she said. "It means ‘clever lies.'"
"Fiction," he said; "only poems tell truth better."
"Fiction," she said.
Ghosts
He saw her in the stranger's eyes.
She heard him in the stranger's voice.
They were frightened. They ran away.
"This is fun," the ghosts said. "We should meet this way more often."
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