Dyslexia A hard thing to explain to an eight year old. How to lift from everything we know a clutch of truths by which he’ll be consoled. I keep to what it doesn’t mean, name the famous cases. Hard to answer no when he asks quietly, Are you the same?   (from The Probabilities of Balance Smiths Knoll, 2010)     Sun Dogs When … Continue reading Two poems by Stephen Payne