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Poems by Stephen Dunn

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The Snowmass Cycle

... 3. HIM Those empty celebrations of the half-believer ...

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Salvation

... of sunny days. As for the can’t-be- ...

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Plaisir

... for both of us to see that little thing come out ...

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Connubial

... she’d been identifying patterns  ...

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In Love, His Grammar Grew

... d look toward a mannequin or a window dresser ...

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Mary Shelley in Brigantine

... that stood for a kind of scariness, good for a laugh ...

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Checklist

... of the Calvinist, or certain marriage beds ...

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Beyond Hammonton

... So much then is duty, duty, duty,  ...

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Dismantling the House

... Photographs, toys, the things that break ...

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Sweetness

... ...  Tonight a friend called to say his lover  ...