After Love from 3quarksdaily
3quarksdaily: "Tuesday Poem
After Love
Afterwards, the compromise.
Bodies resume their boundaries.These legs, for instance, mine.
Your arms take you back in.Spoons of our fingers, lips
admit their ownership.The bedding yawns, a door
blows aimlessly ajarand overhead, a plane
singsongs coming down.Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment whenthe wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the selflay lightly down, and slept
by Maxine Kumin
from No More Masks!; Anchor Books, 1973"
After Love
Afterwards, the compromise.
Bodies resume their boundaries.These legs, for instance, mine.
Your arms take you back in.Spoons of our fingers, lips
admit their ownership.The bedding yawns, a door
blows aimlessly ajarand overhead, a plane
singsongs coming down.Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment whenthe wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the selflay lightly down, and slept
by Maxine Kumin
from No More Masks!; Anchor Books, 1973"
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