Evil always has an advantage and always succeeds until its enormous feet understep some moral chasm, or a damsel held dear by the populace cries out and is heard. Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

 

 

“She was thinking a woman needed an angel for every son of a bitch she’d ever known.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

 

“She’d seen her best friends disappear into their marriages. Even when she spoke on the phone to them, they weren’t there.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

 

“I look for those with hidden wings, and for scars that those who once had wings can’t hide.”
― Stephen Dunn, Between Angels: Poems