0:00:02.416,0:00:05.156 First Kiss 0:00:05.156,0:00:06.616 Her mouth 0:00:06.616,0:00:08.766 fell into my mouth 0:00:08.766,0:00:14.486 like a summer snow, like a[br]5th season, like a fresh Eden, 0:00:14.486,0:00:17.306 like Eden when Eve made God 0:00:17.306,0:00:21.486 whimper with the liquid[br]tilt of her hips— 0:00:21.487,0:00:23.927 her kiss hurt like that— 0:00:23.927,0:00:28.157 I mean, it was as if she’d mixed[br]the sweat of an angel 0:00:28.157,0:00:31.251 with the taste of a tangerine, 0:00:31.251,0:00:35.641 I swear. My mouth[br]had been a helmet forever 0:00:35.641,0:00:37.981 greased with secrets, my mouth 0:00:37.981,0:00:43.681 a dead-end street a little bit[br]lit by teeth—my heart, a clam 0:00:43.681,0:00:46.851 slammed shut at the bottom of a dark, 0:00:46.851,0:00:50.221 but her mouth pulled up[br]like a baby-blue Cadillac 0:00:50.221,0:00:54.581 packed with canaries driven[br]by a toucan—I swear 0:00:54.581,0:00:59.031 those lips said bright[br]wings when we kissed, wild 0:00:59.031,0:01:03.411 and precise—as if she were[br]teaching a seahorse to speak— 0:01:03.411,0:01:08.714 her mouth so careful, chumming[br]the first vowel from my throat 0:01:08.714,0:01:14.464 until my brain was a piano[br]banged loud, hammered like that— 0:01:14.464,0:01:19.144 it was like, I swear her tongue[br]was Saturn’s 7th moon— 0:01:19.144,0:01:23.714 hot like that, hot[br]and cold and circling, 0:01:23.714,0:01:27.569 circling, turning me[br]into a glad planet— 0:01:27.569,0:01:30.379 sun on one side, night pouring 0:01:30.379,0:01:36.759 her slow hand over the other: one fire[br]flying the kite of another. 0:01:36.759,0:01:42.694 Her kiss, I swear—if the Great[br]Mother rushed open the moon 0:01:42.694,0:01:47.244 like a gift and you were there[br]to feel your shadow finally 0:01:47.244,0:01:49.214 unhooked from your wrist. 0:01:49.214,0:01:51.074 That’d be it, but even sweeter— 0:01:51.074,0:01:56.544 like a riot of peg-legged priests[br]on pogo-sticks, up and up, 0:01:56.544,0:02:00.734 this way and this, not[br]falling but on and on 0:02:00.734,0:02:02.964 like that, badly behaved 0:02:02.964,0:02:09.674 but holy—I swear! That[br]kiss: both lips utterly committed 0:02:09.674,0:02:12.484 to the world like a Peace Corps, 0:02:12.484,0:02:16.244 like a free store, forever and always 0:02:16.244,0:02:24.234 a new city—no locks, no walls, just[br]doors—like that, I swear, 0:02:24.234,0:02:26.004 like that.