<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395298" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After Making Love We Hear Footsteps</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I can snore like a bullhorn <br>or play loud music <br>or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman <br>and Fergus will only sink deeper <br>into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash, <br>but let there be that heavy breathing <br>or a stifled come-cry anywhere in the house <br>and he will wrench himself awake <br>and make for it on the run - as now, we lie together, <br>after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, <br>familiar touch of the long-married, <br>and he appears - in his baseball pajamas, it happens, <br>the neck opening so small <br>he has to screw them on, which one day may make him wonder <br>about the mental capacity of baseball players - <br>and flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep, <br>his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the half darkness we look at each other <br>and smile <br>and touch arms across his little, startling muscled body - <br>this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, <br>sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, <br>this blessing love gives again into our arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Galway+Kinnell">Galway Kinnell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395298" data-title="After Making Love We Hear Footsteps de Galway Kinnell" data-description="For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash, but let there be that heavy breathing or a sti..."></div> </div> </div>

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