Phenomenal

               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.