1. BODY PARTS
A chip on the shoulder and bedroom eyes.
Iowa land a horizontal anatomy.
Difficulties of trying to find a form for the time.
Tries to kiss an ear, there’s no place to fully do it.
Christmas, tries to kiss people too tall or too short,
mistletoe’s fault.
Pity whoever has to kiss while wearing a derby.
Mercy for those with bits of pasta or poultry in their beards.
Lutèce kisses in the air, Sardi’s the big hug.
Nobody hugs or kisses at the Silver Spur, Sheridan, Wyoming
Gunfire of grease popping on the grill.
Elsewhere, kissing good manners, kissing a scandal,
kissing as kissing-off.
Censored kisses the heartbreaking last frames of
Cinema Paradiso.
The kiss that sealed their fate, the weak knees, her tongue.
Don’t say you don’t remember it.
2. BODY FUNCTIONS
Leaned down to say goodnight, kiss kiss.
Holds hand palm-up to blow kisses goodbye goodbye.
Sleep tight lipsmacking, two-hand mwaaah the biggest
kiss of all.
A melancholy kiss when the son leaves home.
A kiss for good luck, the altogether insufficient kiss
to do over.
Fugitive busses one-way from the lonely to your
picture.
Kisses an ikonical Eden.
Kissed the boys and made them cry.
Notwithstanding lovemaking, eating, dreaming,
dawdling and dance.
All of them offshoots of a kiss.
The sonnet closest form to a kiss -in purpose, range,
how to, which muscles.
The double sonnet a risky two-fer that can get you
brought up on charges.
Terrified to spin the bottle.
Some kisses irregular but when it feels that good
who’s counting?
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