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
 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 In VQR |
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