Anne Summerfield
To Love
I have words for the parts we use
Physiological, medical, slang
from porn or playground
but no lexicon for this,
the taste of your kiss,
the sound you make
that is not quite a groan.
I can not decline the tenses
our bodies shape, we
reinvent their grammar
every time. And what I feel—
no verb cuts as deep, no noun
hurts or heals with bliss
as precisely as you.
Physiological, medical, slang
from porn or playground
but no lexicon for this,
the taste of your kiss,
the sound you make
that is not quite a groan.
I can not decline the tenses
our bodies shape, we
reinvent their grammar
every time. And what I feel—
no verb cuts as deep, no noun
hurts or heals with bliss
as precisely as you.
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