Sixty Stephen Dunn Because in my family the heart goes first and hardly anybody makes it out of his fifties, I think I’ll stay up late with a few bandits of my choice and resist good advice. I’ll invent a secret scroll lost by Egyptians and reveal its contents: the directions to your house, recipes […]

Losing Steps by Stephen Dunn      1 It’s probably a Sunday morning in a pickup game, and it’s clear you’ve begun to leave fewer people behind. Your fakes are as good as ever, but when you move you’re like the Southern Pacific the first time a car kept up with it, your opponent at your hip, with […]

Aerial in the Pines by Stephen Dunn To cut off the top branches/of the mesquite pine/(Once unthinkable for us) was a bit of nature traded/for clear reception,for what was fundamental now. The tree looked foolish, like someone/well-dressed/with a bad haircut, but the television had become what to do/with diffiuclt time,/important, an antidote to speaking if […]