About Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently I Sailed with Magellan (FSG, 2003), and a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles, reissued this year by Carnegie Mellon. His stories appear frequently in the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Atlantic Monthly, and in the O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Stories anthologies.

Also By This Author

A Steamer Trunk
Sleepers
The Estrangement of Luis Morone

Recent Blog Entries

The Moscow Protests, Part 3
Consider the Lobstermen
Assignment Afghanistan: Third Squad
The Lovely Sea
The Golden Triangle
The End of the Séance
The Soviet Era: A Look Back
The Moscow Protests, Part 2

The Night Your Dress Lifted

Stuart Dybek

There was a burst
of static
on radios
all over the city

the night your dress
lifted over your head

and in the dark
wool combed
fireworks from your hair

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