‘After the affair and the moving out,
after the destructive revivifying passion,
we watched her life quiet
after the destructive revivifying passion,
we watched her life quiet
into a new one, her lover more and more
on its periphery. She spent many nights
alone, happy for the narcosis
of the television…’
– excerpt from ‘What Goes On’ by Stephen Dunn
part-broken, part-whole 