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

Tags: love poetry poem accuracy intimacy patterns identifying alarming connubial undersand

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