Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can’t Keep My Legs Closed for You)

Louise Gluck, the 2020 Nobel Prize winner, wrote a poem called 'The Encounter' -

 

You came to the side of the bed

and sat staring at me.

Then you kissed me-I felt

hot wax on my forehead.

I wanted it to leave a mark:

that’s how I knew I loved you.

Because I wanted to be burned, stamped,

to have something in the end...

 

My poem today follows the end which Louise Gluck talked about.