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Dunn 

Stephen Dunn
1939-2021

 
"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
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