Chord
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Stuart Dybek (1942—) is a masterful short story writer as well as poet. The qualities that distinguish his fiction—a strong connection to place, . . . MORE »
Stuart Dybek (1942—) is a masterful short story writer as well as poet. The qualities that distinguish his fiction—a strong connection to place, . . . MORE »
By Stuart Dybek
A man steps out of sunlight,
sunlight that streams like grace,
still gaping at blue sky
staked across the emptiness of space,
into a history where shadows
assume a human face.
A man slips into silence
that began as a cry,
still trailing music
although reduced to the sigh
of an accordion
as it folds into its case.
"Chord" from Streets in Their Own Ink. Copyright © 2004 byStuart Dybek. Used with the permission of Farrar Straus & Giroux, LLC.