The Kiss
I guided these fires
from a body of islands
burning and unable
to reach each other

Every day of needing
bends the waters closer
to the unseen flame who
moves to have anatomy

whose sudden heat will
open snow’s first eyelid
to violet iris
and pupal stone

like the sprig of air
between our cheeks
and the whole pink birds
first writhing for it
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