Showing posts with label Joyce Carol Oates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joyce Carol Oates. Show all posts

January 9, 2012

Home

He felt
his usual

vertigo

as he entered
the house.

— Joyce Carol Oates, short story "Labryinth"
(McSweeney's 29)

September 7, 2008

Facial

Pop Olafsson was this fattish
bald guy with a face
like a wrinkled dishrag
left in the sun to dry.
-- Joyce Carol Oates, "High Lonesome"
(Zoetrope: All-Story, Winter 2005)