What Came First?

"Each act done e'er leaveth mark and trace upon thy flesh, and winter's cold and sadness are clouds above thy gazing to mine, for affection. Be we merely two strangers trapped, like prisoners of the f..."

"We had been regularly acquainted as casual friends. We'd maintained contact through various jobs and neighborhoods...I'd helped her move more than once. We were like brother and sister sort of, attr..."

"I am a farmer, an Oklahoma man. A man who has seen the Dust Bowl and Famine. I held two hungry children while their mother was sick. I cried the tears of a lonely man, an empty man... unable to give, ..."

"Be it that life's genius beget Only of love old and true With tears bittersweet Carried and painted by woman In her first and wisest beauty. By the woman in man Shall the genius of life beget A..."

"A castrato out of Nero's Rome went to New York City to find Hermaphroditus. A castrater eunuch my frigid, sterile Jezebel, my harlot, my perverse beloved son tied in knots--O Electra-Oedipus. My child..."

"Looking closely, at a single drop a bead of water on a leaf, in just such a way that I see much more than my own reflection. Peering deeply I see drops within drops within drops That contain many oc..."