1 00:00:02,416 --> 00:00:05,156 First Kiss 2 00:00:05,156 --> 00:00:06,616 Her mouth 3 00:00:06,616 --> 00:00:08,766 fell into my mouth 4 00:00:08,766 --> 00:00:14,486 like a summer snow, like a 5th season, like a fresh Eden, 5 00:00:14,486 --> 00:00:17,306 like Eden when Eve made God 6 00:00:17,306 --> 00:00:21,486 whimper with the liquid tilt of her hips— 7 00:00:21,487 --> 00:00:23,927 her kiss hurt like that— 8 00:00:23,927 --> 00:00:28,157 I mean, it was as if she’d mixed the sweat of an angel 9 00:00:28,157 --> 00:00:31,251 with the taste of a tangerine, 10 00:00:31,251 --> 00:00:35,641 I swear. My mouth had been a helmet forever 11 00:00:35,641 --> 00:00:37,981 greased with secrets, my mouth 12 00:00:37,981 --> 00:00:43,681 a dead-end street a little bit lit by teeth—my heart, a clam 13 00:00:43,681 --> 00:00:46,851 slammed shut at the bottom of a dark, 14 00:00:46,851 --> 00:00:50,221 but her mouth pulled up like a baby-blue Cadillac 15 00:00:50,221 --> 00:00:54,581 packed with canaries driven by a toucan—I swear 16 00:00:54,581 --> 00:00:59,031 those lips said bright wings when we kissed, wild 17 00:00:59,031 --> 00:01:03,411 and precise—as if she were teaching a seahorse to speak— 18 00:01:03,411 --> 00:01:08,714 her mouth so careful, chumming the first vowel from my throat 19 00:01:08,714 --> 00:01:14,464 until my brain was a piano banged loud, hammered like that— 20 00:01:14,464 --> 00:01:19,144 it was like, I swear her tongue was Saturn’s 7th moon— 21 00:01:19,144 --> 00:01:23,714 hot like that, hot and cold and circling, 22 00:01:23,714 --> 00:01:27,569 circling, turning me into a glad planet— 23 00:01:27,569 --> 00:01:30,379 sun on one side, night pouring 24 00:01:30,379 --> 00:01:36,759 her slow hand over the other: one fire flying the kite of another. 25 00:01:36,759 --> 00:01:42,694 Her kiss, I swear—if the Great Mother rushed open the moon 26 00:01:42,694 --> 00:01:47,244 like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally 27 00:01:47,244 --> 00:01:49,214 unhooked from your wrist. 28 00:01:49,214 --> 00:01:51,074 That’d be it, but even sweeter— 29 00:01:51,074 --> 00:01:56,544 like a riot of peg-legged priests on pogo-sticks, up and up, 30 00:01:56,544 --> 00:02:00,734 this way and this, not falling but on and on 31 00:02:00,734 --> 00:02:02,964 like that, badly behaved 32 00:02:02,964 --> 00:02:09,674 but holy—I swear! That kiss: both lips utterly committed 33 00:02:09,674 --> 00:02:12,484 to the world like a Peace Corps, 34 00:02:12,484 --> 00:02:16,244 like a free store, forever and always 35 00:02:16,244 --> 00:02:24,234 a new city—no locks, no walls, just doors—like that, I swear, 36 00:02:24,234 --> 00:02:26,004 like that.