I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Stephen Dunn


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Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

Stephen Dunn


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He held her like a new woman

and what she felt
felt almost as good as love had,
and each of them called it love
because precision didn’t matter anymore.

Stephen Dunn


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I’ll always deny that I kissed her.
I was just whispering into her mouth.

Stephen Dunn

Tag: love poetry kisses



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That time I thought I was in love
and calmly said so
was not much different from the time
I was truly in love
and slept poorly and spoke out loud
to the wall
and discovered the hidden genius
of my hands
And the times I felt less in love,
less than someone,
were, to be honest, not so different
either.
Each was ridiculous in its own way
and each was tender, yes,
sometimes even the false is tender.
I am astonished
by the various kisses we’re capable of.
Each from different heights
diminished, which is simply the law.
And the big bruise
from the long fall looked perfectly white
in a few years.
That astounded me most of all.

Stephen Dunn


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Connubial

Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—

I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.

Stephen Dunn

Tag: love poetry poem accuracy intimacy patterns identifying alarming connubial undersand



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Altruism is for those
who can't endure their desires.
There's a world

as ambiguous as a moan,
a pleasure moan
our earnest neighbors

might think a crime.
It's where we could live.
I'll say I love you,

Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid

poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

--Mon Semblable

Stephen Dunn

Tag: love pleasure disappointment



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I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.

Stephen Dunn

Tag: poetry disappointment



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Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

Stephen Dunn


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