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"