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20 November 2011

After Making Love, a poem by Stephen Dunn

AFTER MAKING LOVE - Stephen Dunn


No one should ask the other,
"What were you thinking?"

No one, that is,
who doesn't want to hear about the past

and its inhabitants,
or the strange loneliness of the present

filled, even as it may be, with pleasure
or those snapshots

of the future, different heads,
on different bodies.

Some people actually desire honesty.
They must never have broken

ino their own solitary houses
after having misplaced the key,

never seen with an intruder's eyes
what is theirs.


 

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