Book Marks

from "The Best American Essays"

I am worried about the woman. I am afraid she might hurt herself, perhaps has already hurt herself—there's no way to know which of the return dates stamped on the book of poetry was hers.

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making love

from The Best American Poetry
(Scribner)

Why make? I used to wonder. Is it something you have to keep on making, like beds or dinner . . .

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liferower

from Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
(Bedford/St. Martin)

...There I am on the Liferower screen, the computerized woman in the tiny boat, and the little woman rowing below me is my pacer. We look exactly alike, except she does not get tired.…

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To the Absent Wife of the Beautiful Poet at the Writers' Conference

from Readings for Writers
(The Kenyon Review)

...There are gifts we can give our husbands, but adoration is not one.

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