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Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"

Veer off to follow some feral distraction - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"

A face for noon - Stephen Dunn "At His House"

A face for dusk - Stephen Dunn "At His House"

Give permission to the dark - Stephen Dunn "Backyard"

Needed a scalpel to locate scruples - Stephen Dunn "Building a Person"

Cake and candle celebrations - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

Asking in advance to be forgiven - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

The acceptable cruelty of nature - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

The limitations of desire - Stephen Dunn "A Circus of Needs"

Prayed to our shadows for clouds - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

As convincing as our souls - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

To redefine the sky - Stephen Dunn "Cut and Break"

Recognized an elsewhere - Stephen Dunn "Cut and Break"

Indifference to the moon - Stephen Dunn "Essay on Sanity"

A terrible flickering sanity - Stephen Dunn "Essay on Sanity"

Ringing their own silent bells - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"

Revealing our need for angels - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"

The moment before loss - Stephen Dunn "The Gambler at Home"

Gorgeous in its disregard - Stephen Dunn "The Gambler at Home"

Halfway to forgetfulness - Stephen Dunn "The Gambler at Home"

And despair's wild hunch - Stephen Dunn "The Gambler at Home"

Nightfall without fanfare - Stephen Dunn "Here and There"

In the lawlessness of sleep - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

Always about to vanish - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

And flaunted your blazing cheek - Stephen Dunn "If Once In Silence"

The postponement of dawn - Stephen Dunn "In a Dream of Dawn"

The sharks are pretending to be dolphins - Stephen Dunn "In Order to Be True to Life"

Helpless as any crocus - Stephen Dunn "Infatuation"

Phones that work in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

Makes a home for the stars - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

A mind devious and fair - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"

Within rules freely accepted - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"

The moon rewired our universe - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"

Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"

Offered them a cup of moon - Stephen Dunn "Moonrakers"

From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"

Multiplying the stars - Stephen Dunn "No Wonder"

Dusk's confused traveler - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"

The correct color for desolate - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"

Only the night as a shawl - Stephen Dunn "Replicas"

The tease of sunny days - Stephen Dunn "Salvation"

Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"

The already brutal century - Stephen Dunn "The Slow Surge"

The absent, arbitrary wind - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"

The shadows illumination creates - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"

Always occurs too late - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"

Appreciating the shadows - Stephen Dunn "Split: 1962"

Of sensation and nerve - Stephen Dunn "Split:1962"

Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"

In collusion with memory - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"

Bearing indispensable news - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"

By the eternity of a second - Stephen Dunn "Time"

With open mouth and no regrets - Stephen Dunn "Time"

After a wine-deepened dinner - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"

What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"

In his landscape of wishes - Stephen Dunn "The Worrier"

Gifts of companionship and solitude - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"

What joys accrue to the needy - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"


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