After Making Love

No one should ask the other

“What were you thinking?”

No one, that is,

who doesn’t want to hear about the past

and its inhabitants,

or the strange loneliness of the present

filled, even as it may be, with pleasure,

or those snapshots

of the future, different heads

on different bodies.

Some people actually desire honesty.

They must never have broken

into their own solitary houses

after having misplaced the key,

never seen with an intruder’s eyes

what is theirs.