Posts by Michael Arnzen

she won't say how she broke them but the boys don't hold the doors for her anymore and nobody signs her cast her armpits ache from the handles and she feels as hollow as the numb caverns inside the plaster that pinch her and the bones will set crooked -- her legs perpetually as bent as her mind -- and his wrung neck which neither splint nor plaster can hold fast or bind any stiffer than his own rigid musculature Explanation: I found that list of offbeat phrases in the "Strange Visitors" contest awhile back amusing, and began to think…