An Abbreviated Family Dictionary

Mind

2013-05-21T15:34:13Z

Endless Andy Griffith. A bottomless strawberry Seagram's wine cooler. And a crawfish hole, once you break off the stubbled mud cap and drop twine.

Forget

2013-05-15T07:21:36Z

Redact your cookbook of lard and sugar to oleo and saccharine pills.

Depression

2013-05-06T12:46:26Z

A renovated tenement run by the Irish that won't accept the Irish.

Anger

2013-05-04T14:04:38Z

Who can either get or give enough?

Lost

2013-04-18T01:55:29Z

All the fabric ever woven by your sister's dusty loom.

Dignity

2013-03-07T12:07:59Z

Your contemporary equivalent newsy cap and hilarious hear ye hear ye.

Human

2013-02-23T02:35:23Z

Outside the house another house. Outside its fence another fence. Outside the meadow another meadow path past cow shit and mushrooms to the door leading out of the house.

Just

2013-02-06T11:58:34Z

As lonely as your father's single issue of erotica.

Zero

2013-01-28T16:08:53Z

Don't stop you're there.

Was

2013-01-20T19:06:52Z

Expressed as age-at-incident to parent-age-at-incident over individual obsessive degree. It is irrational. It is endlessly specific.