Poems by Stephen Dunn
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Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry
... Laugh at yourself, laugh at this poem, at all poetry ...
I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone
... but tonight the body-hungers have sent out ...
Allegory Of The Cave
... But in the semi-dark they read his wordswith the indulgence of those who seldom read: ...
The Routine Things Around The House
... how we ease ourselves back from sadness,but I remembered when I was twelve, ...
Welcome
... if you believe nothing is always what's left ...
Story
... Three women crying in the street, each for different reasons ...
Biography In The First Person
... My habits in bed are so perverse that they differentiate me ...
At The Smithville Methodist Church
... sufficiently dead, that our children would think of him like Lincoln ...
With No Experience In Such Matters
... the smallest protest, if that's what it was, ...
Named
... was also more or less every namehe'd ever been called, and when you die, he thought, ...
Essay On The Personal
... Years later, long after we believed it peculiar ...
The Sudden Light And The Trees
... that hand open when I took it outside, a strengththat must have come out of hopelessness ...
Slant
... I was just whispering into her mouth ...
Walking The Marshland
... to the east. I liked saying craps and croupierand sometimes I wanted to be lost ...
Landscape At The End Of The Century
... of night, unmetaphysical, cool as a skeptic's ...
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