On the Daily
“cotton sweaters with the American flag, / Oxford shirts, and riding boots.”
“Frankenstein, an early adopter, fidgets / by firelight”
“Just as I was getting back to my desk, the phone rang. It was Bill Murray, and he had a question.”
“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
“The interstitium seems plotless, an entity that, as Auden claimed of poetry, ‘makes nothing happen.’ ”
“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”