Keep the first kiss
Firmly in mind,
Template for all others.
Kiss my face
As you did the first time
Unburnished,
When we were virgin,
Stainless and unblemished.
Kiss me surgically.
Cut out your thorns
Your scars
Your old wounds.
Give them to me:
Let my phloem carry your blood
As an infant in my sepal arms.
Do I love you?
Look up, at the
Sun of the New Century.
Titanic heat
Chained by distance.
Already we are far
From our union in time,
When in the Old Sun
We were atoms bound.
And then dust.
And then you,
And I.
Somehow separate,
By forms divided,
But still close.
Always close,
If you will hold me.