Stephen Dunn

After Making Love

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 into their own solitary houses after having misplaced the key, never seen with an intruder's eyes what is theirs.