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# After Love
- URL: https://poetry101.love/after-love/
- Published: 2021-01-15T03:08:56.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-24T16:23:03.000Z
- Description: by Maxine Kumin
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Maxine Kumin, Morning Memory, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

Afterward, 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.

[Good Poems for Hard Times](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Good%5FPoems%5Ffor%5FHard%5FTimes/9DteqBjjvLIC?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Penguin Publishing Group, 2006.

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