Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Connubial


Painting by Barbara Muir


Connubial


Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I’ve mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—

I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.


Stephen Dunn

Posted over on Poetry Foundation

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