‘A woman from Barnard College calls me and asks if I would please spell ‘hemorrhaging’ for her.’
A woman from Barnard College calls me and in the course of our phone conversation she asks me if I would please spell ‘hemorrhaging’ for her. I spell it, but wrong – maybe ‘hemmhoraging’.
‘My father has trouble with his hearing and does not like to talk on the phone, so I talk on the phone mainly to my mother’.
‘Syllables are excised by / X-Acto, fed into a shredder / for good measure.’
‘If he fell in I would jump straight after, I would plumb through water not cold so much as oily, and dark as a dirty wine bottle.’
‘A woman from Barnard College calls me and asks if I would please spell ‘hemorrhaging’ for her.’
