Introduction to The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
There are some things you tell no one, secrets packed and folded away…
Hermes of the Ways
The hard sand breaks,
and the grains of it
are clear as wine.
Far off over the leagues of it,
the wind,
playing on the wide shore…
Indian Camp
At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up. The two Indians stood waiting.
Nick and his father got in the stern…
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
After rummaging in her bags, Corinna pulls out a book and gives it to you.
“But this isn’t it,” you say
Mutations
I saw in a hall an arrow pointing the way and I thought that this inoffensive symbol had once been a thing of iron…