Phenomenal
.A kiss is more than lips, spit, tongues and teeth
.Luxuriating in a bedroom’s heat,
.Exploring to blue veins and nerves beneath
.Conventions recognized by skin. The beat —
.Against the ribcage in each chest — of hearts
.Not only tells bones’ marrow — and fate — that
.Devotion will surge forth, transforms our parts
(Played out before we met in scenes like flat
.Hinterlands) and irrigates our lives with
.Impunity that springs from love. A kiss
.Lifts nestled souls to where tomorrow’s myth
.Laughs passionately at the past and this
.Incites a joy, eloquent as if white
.Phosphorescent blood filled our mouths at night.