#Connubial by Stephen Dunn

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I'm reading poetry at 1 am and spiraling over like 45 emotions at once, which is how poetry was meant to be enjoyed, I think

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Connubial (excerpt) - Stephen Dunn

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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. — Connubial by STEPHEN DUNN

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Connubial by Stephen Dunn (insp.)

[havingapoemwithyou]

connubial by Stephen Dunn

[salemoleander]

Brainfog // A webweave based on waiting for the fog to lift by Odaigahara

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Connubial, Stephen Dunn || @wardahtherose || Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

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Connubial by Stephen Dunn

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[llovelymoonn]

hi! could you do a webweave about rejecting or being afraid of genuine intimacy? :)

safia elhillo girls that never die: "summer" \\ stephen dunn connubial \\ don snyder aquarian odyssey: a photographic trip into the sixties (1979) \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath \\ renée stout

kofi

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[ID: eight shots from the anime ‘revolutionary girl utena’ with lines from the poem ‘connubial’ by stephen dunn edited onto them.

anthy himemiya, stunned with tears in her eyes. text reads: “because with alarming accuracy”

utena tenjou, smiling in bed. text reads: “she’d been identifying patterns”

anthy’s glasses placed on a table. text reads: “i was unaware of—”

anthy holding a candelabra with one lit candle, her glasses’ lenses opaque. text reads: “—this tic, that tendency,”

utena holding anthy’s hand to her chest in the gondola to the duelling arena. text reads: “like the way i’ve mastered the language of intimacy”

a close-up of anthy’s eyes, partially obscured by her hair, staring blankly into the camera. text reads: “in order to conceal how i felt—”

anthy sitting on her bed, with her back to the camera and utena. text reads: “i knew i was in danger”

utena and anthy comforting each other on the tower roof. text reads: “of being terribly understood.” /end ID]

revolutionary girl utena (1997) / stephen dunn, connubial

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—“connubial” by stephen dunn

[wordholic]

A Fisherman of the inland sea, Ursula K. Leguin / Paul, Big Thief / A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde / Connubial, Stephen Dunn

[jshoulson]

Today’s Poem

Connubial --Stephen Dunn

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.

[underneaththetop]

Gems from The Alipore Post

Connubial by Stephen Dunn Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of — this tic, that tendency, like the way that I’ve mastered intimacy in order to conceal how I felt — I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

[melophobia2013]

[ID:

Connubial

by Stephen Dunn

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.

/end ID]