On first glance the yard was piled high with scrap metal, but a closer inspection revealed it to be the place where new life was given to old things.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

I used to think in the good old days, all a newspaper had to do to attract circulation was to put out a better newspaper. But young people don't seem any more inclined to read a good newspaper than a bad one.

I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
that buried itself
once, in human flesh

but I traded it later
to a boy on horseback
in the southeast quarter
who begged me to have it
and gave me
a new bamboo basket

Obviously, losing the Tattered Cover is like losing an old friend ... We're saddened to see them move. But they're astute enough business people to know they can drive their business anywhere.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.