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.