My neighbor saw him jump the fence in thunder, leave the pasture for the road, then back again, a flight across boundaries as lightning struck, and the rain came down, as it does these days, urgent, torrential.   [...]

Are you a man or a woman? She's squinting at my inch long hair, the flat side of my chest, and what are the answers for the state  [...]

Of course I meant to tell him. I waited for the right moment like a farmer waits for rain. [...]

Because she is ancient and winged, her whole body perched and dappled, legs fading into the trunk of a tree

The jagged trail of pee starts on the porch mat's rough weave, crosses the foyer into the front room and ends on the rug brought from Turkey. [...]

Afterwards, there are no more nurses in the room with the doctor, and you realize there’s been an official decision about the absence of desire. A board somewhere sat and determined it: male doctors may examine the remaining breast unaccompanied after mastectomy [...]