The Robbery
Natalie Eilbert
The story goes the man waited until the customers cleared the bank before robbing it. He hoped to be caught, because he struggled with his health and needed health ...
I don't get to be the same person each time, but still, think of all the atrocities I've climbed out of. It helps to carry a rope. I sound ominous but what I'm saying ...
America, like a monstrous sow vomiting cars and appliances into a green ooze resembling dollar bills, where is my America? Agnostic and uninsured, I eat celery, onions, and ...
Everything will be fine, to paraphrase the anchoress, and everything will be golden, like a crock of manuka honey or hand-picked Bartlett pear, or like the ...
Hours before the divorce was final, the day the divorce became final, I woke, knowing the dream I had just dreamt could not be touched, the dream in which my daughter took the ...
The story goes the man waited until the customers cleared the bank before robbing it. He hoped to be caught, because he struggled with his health and needed health ...
Like Boccaccio’s idle rich, we tell ourselves stories to avoid admitting we can’t go back. The islands in my mind, vaster than this island on a ...
After you left, I put on the Pixies, lit a cigarette and looked out at the rain on the slate rooftops of Lazio, grey, riddled with satellites and slanted, orange ...
To grieve an American grief a delicate feeling: from afar wistful and brief To grow soft on the milk ...
I retrofitted a shelter. Burned driftwood. Drove a gash across the country, slept in the car, dreaming, of you. I was in love and erasing the ...
Wedged in my plantar fascia’s rivers of tissue, the tip of a spike from the locust tree—some long as a boning knife—whose thorn ...
What I want from you has little to do with sex, though it, like wine and bread, rests on the table between us: the curse that escapes your craned neck; the way you ...
It was a spectacular spring: sparrows bickering in the trees, the street carts smelling of syrupy cashews in front of the Jewish Museum— you bought flowers, said Hi to ...
The plot’s restless. Newness grown stiff from disuse. To believe to have lived through the end of something and still to remain in that tight ruse of ...