The Night Your Dress Lifted

ISSUE: Spring 1984

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

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of several collections of short fiction, including I Sailed with Magellan (FSG, 2003), and a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles. 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. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, and he has received a PEN/Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, and a Whiting Writers Award.

Issue: Spring 1984 Volume 60 # 2

Published: December 12, 2003

Topics: Poetry

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