pantoum's Diaryland Diary

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AFTER LOVE

264.

AFTER LOVE
by Maxine Kumin

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 ajar

and overhead, a plane
singsongs coming down.

Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf;
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept.

... and that is why fucking is so incredibly wonderful.

9:32 a.m. - 2005-10-13

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