American Sentences 2011

What are American Sentences? (Sentence highlights from 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013.

1.12.11 – Just because he has a bald spot doesn’t mean he can’t have a Mohawk.
1.13.11 – The place where a man goes when he wife denies sex: poonitentiary.
1.15.11 – In the dream her clitoris a cold metal box split by a thin frame.
1.26.11 – Jourdan says I have no frequent flyer miles so no one can die.
1.30.11 – Remember when you get to the labyrinth’s center, you’re halfway there.
2.09.11 – I prefer not to attach electrodes to the testicles of my poems.
2.10.11 – “He apparently only gets off the couch to eat grass & lick his ass.”
2.27.11 – I don’t remember what year it was Pop stopped smiling in photographs.
3.06.11 – Poor little blood orange – I peel it only to find it’s albino.
3.14.11 – With certain constellations the light takes so long to get here.
3.25.11 – March squalls fill curbsides w/ cherry blossoms – we watch from under a tree.
3.26.11 – Memorial balloons stuck in the branches of his family tree.
4.07.11 – Psoas – “the interface between security and identity.”
4.14.11 – Is it a cigarette ash or plum blossom liberated by wind?
4.17.11 – Day she tells me about her date rape, full moon over our wedding spot.
4.26.11 – Dream of West Seattle as Hindu ghetto – we rescue the walking clam.
4.27.11 – Dream of flicking away a giant weasel with a beach-side timber.
5.01.11 – My students tell me “nobody but chance intervenes and saves the day.”
5.04.11 – Joe’s party favors: Japanese crab snacks washed down w/ potent sidecars.
5.05.11 – At the airport, he sits down in a handicapped seat, reads his bible.
5.05.11 – Who’da thought the Baby Boomers would be hoarding the wealth? Everyone.
5.08.11 – Not Japanese woman in the garden – contemporary scarecrow.
5.10.11 – “If there’s a hell, it’s Harrah’s w/ Barry Manilow and glo sticks.” (Sam Hamill).
5.11.11 – Mt. Vernon USA: church, tattoo parlor, pawn shop, Mexican restaurant.
5.13.11 – No, not a ripe mango, dried camellia leaf fallen from the tree.
5.14.11 – Woodcarver – how many times I passed your head floating in a rainforest.
5.21.11 – The seven year old comes back from the salad bar w/ seaweed & grapes.
5.22.11 – Fences are erected on mountains to keep rocks from playing in the road.
5.25.11 – We can hear the fir trees whispering to the lilacs – “hang on.”

5.28.11 – I do not think the rhododendrons are fully committed this year.
5.29.11 – Who doesn’t love the crunch of pine cone under boot heel besides pine cone?
6.1.11 – We floss more during SIFF than at any other time of the year.
6.2.11 – This’ll be Seattle shortest short-sleeve shirt season in history.
6.6.11 – My straw hat knows another breeze has arrived before I do.
6.9.11 – Each floating stump is a marker where a corpse has been buried at sea.
6.14.11 – Everett cop thought sirens would make crows scram – instead they gang-shit his car.
6.18.11 – Hey neighbor, your bag of dog shit’s not exactly a ‘clean recyclable.’
6.20.11 – Eating an orange in the uphill alley – messy walking sunset.
6.21.11 – By the year’s longest day Americus weeds overgrow their banks again.
6.22.11 – summer walk – I interrupted the fly buffet just for a moment.
6.25.11 – Cat drug method: Roll in it, lick it off yr body, cough up hairballs.
6.27.11 – In a dream he goes about removing nostrils from corpses.
6.27.11 – Buffy arrives, says: ‘What’s a grandma w/o a piece of ham in her purse?’
6.27.11 – Branches of lavender bobbing in the wake of bumblebees.
6.28.11 – Fresh dead squirrel in the middle of the street’s simply sushi for crow.
7.2.11 – He tried to make himself a hollow bone through which spirit could whistle.
7.8.11 – Stellar Jay – what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what? what?
7.14.11 – “Now pardon me for a moment while I illuminate your uterus.”
7.22.11 – A hornet lands on a bright yellow chevy sedan bumper – Mother!
7.27.11 – Dear Peanut Man, how underhanded a move is an aneurism?
7.30.11 – You remember that 100 year flood we had a few years back? Which one?
8.06.11 – Pasta sold at SeaTac Airport, shaped like the needle called Space Noodles.
China Trip:

8.7.11 – Sign in Beijing’s Guigo Hotel bathroom warns: Be careful of landslide.
8.7.11 – The Swedish poet has a breakfast of coffee and watermelon.
8.7.11 – Are you carrying any items on the dangerous good chart?
8.8.11 – At the banquet he said: It’s the best cow stomach salad I’ve ever had.
8.9.11 – Pass on donkey meat ‘cuz I did not come here just for a piece of ass.
8.9.11 – They board w/ Tibetan Cowboy hats, activate Good, Bad & Ugly ringtone.
8.9.11 – The husk of the sunflower seed she spits flies in the Qinghai wind.
8.10.11 – Venemous Goyas are skanky and constantly melodramatic.
8.10.11 – Outside the temple garbage truck comes, plays “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
8.10.11 – Smudged by the smoke of the incense in the Temple of the Jade Emperor.
8.10.11 – Hawks above the hill and the stairs to the statue of Quan Yin – Nanhai.
8.10.11 – Tour the Yellow River watershed before the river turns yellow.
8.10.11 – Dinner of Moto Burn Fingers Keel, Hanamaki and Crispy Duck.
8.11.11 – Qinghai Thursday lunch dishes: Connected to Flesh & Blood, Meat Package.
8.12.11 – Qinghai Hotel dessert – they opt for Haagen Dazs, pass on Crispy Pimp.
8.13.11 – Two Xining Swat team cops w/ smart phones try to help me find you piao. (Yo Pe Ow, postcards.)
8.13.11 – His Muslim beard points down as he turns over the field – til wind blows.
8.14.11 – Huge blue terracotta Longwu Manjushri festooned w/ human and tiger skin.
8.15.11 – The Xining vendor tells us the popsicle is “popsicle-flavored.”
8.15.11 – Tibetan herding his goats down the road w/ motorcycle & switch.
8.15.11 – Smoke blows from the Bon Gya Monastery – monks head to lunch / case of Pepsi.
8.15.11 – How brown the Longwu River but not the creek by the monastery.
8.16.11 – After 8 days in China even my excrement looks like dragons.
8.17.11 – The Thunderbolt of the wheel of time can’t stop traveler’s diarrhea.
8.18.11 – The grandma who develops a relationship with coffin wood.
8.19.11 – On the room service menu: salt baked chicken claw – we order seven.
8.20.11 – Spider web outside Du Fu shrine catches raindrops, bits of cedar.
8.20.11 – The snails climb up the walls of the shrine of Du Fu in August rain.
8.20.11 – Even the cedar caught in the web outside Du Fu’s shrine – calligraphy.
8.21.11 – Ganfu (tea ritual) in De Fu Alley one last hit of Xi’an.
8.22.11 – She naps next to her large bottle of Coke, incense ready for Buddha.
8.23.11 – Get high on the Great Wall above the buzz of cicadas – his phone rings.
8.23.11 – Bumblebee on the Great Wall in his death throes w/ a watershed view.
8.27.11 – Our China motto: “Leave no Tibetan Prayer wheel unturned.”
9.5.11 – At the home of Buster the three-legged cat, they offer gluten-free beer.
9.11.11 – We finally move that recliner to find: button, peanut, dead moth.
9.13.11 – Last bit of lichen the doe pulled off the downed branch: a green beard.
9.23.11 – Day after my 50th pluck a gray nipple hair w/ birthday tweezers.
10.7.11 – I put down my celphone as soon as I see the cop, but I’m in starbucks.
10.16.11 – W/ the dream hose squirt their sideline, get lectured by Hosni Mubarak.
10.20.11 – Seattle day: wondering if the solar-powered prayer wheel will turn.
N.1.11 – She’s not a witch in a wheelchair, she’s a disabled pagan.
N.4.11 – I missed the last step & the next thing I knew people were standing over me.
N.5.11 – Crow survival, the one who has the guts to play chicken for a cracker.
11.11.11 – A hospice latihan while in the next bed they watch The Price is Right.
N.27.11 – Ma helps me translate Crispy Pimp into Spanish: Chulo Tostado.
12.14.11 – The passing bus ripples the maple tree reflection in my teacup.
12.17.11 – A little like Jesus, he can turn 8 guitar strings into 50 clams.
12.21.11 – Sometimes a cop just has to punch a lady jaywalker in the face.