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Along the Lines of CauserieAlong the Lines of Causerie (book)

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The children come back out, shelved with raincoats like flowers in vases. Their boots shout splish splash and the puddles are making faces so they smash them in. Tip toeing the border of picture frames and clocks, someone warns them of slipping because stained glass knees are scraping and the clumsy kids are crying while the last in line finds himself growing up in a life that's just a snapshot.

Themes and Bodies of ProseThemes and Bodies of Prose (book)

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55 pieces of prose. The wind roars in dandelions and a mane of white halos her index finger. The sky is a banana peel, bruised and being peeled back. Clouds come. She sits at the top of the hill with her legs crossed, legs stained green. The clothesine filled with waving dresses and socks and jeans. Rain falls so far down the hill that she can't even hear it hit the ground. Just streaks like light, dust filled beams, that's how it looks out there; that's how it seems. And the blues are grays. Yeah and the clouds are drapes. Our eyes are bathroom mirrors. Dew is just condensation from the shower's heat. Yeah and the girls are summers that no one else can see, even she, folding her arms over her chest, pocketing summer in the folds of denim threads; a note to say everything that needs to be said. Otherwise the poets would forget that they're writing about everyone they wish they had met.

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Various Verbal Illustrations of the Female Form and the Consequentially Sentimental Nature of the Rest of UsVarious Verbal Illustrations of the Female Form and the Consequentially Sentimental Nature of the Rest of Us (book)

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Fifteen short stories, each one dedicated to a real life woman, celebrating the female form. Stories include such characters as a thieving model who falls in love with a college student; a man going blind captures the beauty of his wife in Braille; a schizophrenic couple who hitchhikes across the country to Alaska because of a supposedly free cruise they have won; a man recently divorced who wins his wife back over by stealing a bus and dumping into the ocean where a whale mistakes it for a potential mate; a widower who steals flowers from his wife's grave and talks to them; a Nigerian man who flirts with a European woman through an interpreter; a cokehead with a savior complex who ends up joining the postal service just to find out where his letters are going; a man attempting to solve the mystery of his dead girlfriend's haunting in the abandoned house where she had lived and was set on fire. These are just a few. Excerpts can be read at www.livejournal.com/users/myrueme