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B. Sharise Moore - Nina's "The Anatomy of His Kiss"

from Love Jones: The Date Mixtape by Bomani Armah

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His kiss is bone

the thirty-third vertebrae

intricate cog of knotted stomach
and butterflied flutter

time sheet of nerve ending
river of want spilled
over heaping spoon of tongue

his breath, all ligament
and yearn
the slick and the slide
our lips, uneven bars
a perfect purse
of where impossible meets
intermittent dream

day trader of nibble
lick
suck
sigh
his delicate bite
is a coiling respiration
kickback
pinwheel
a clockwork
respite
from routine
the safest danger

his skin, a mosaic splash
of Middle Eastern silk hung subtly
across dark copper jaw

he is fragmented mirage
the unhinging before the howl
makes me a muted
maim of a lover

and

I can only beg from the
pits of my pupils

he snatches my speech
catches it between teeth
grinds it to chunk
of unintelligible grunt
swallows
sinks
inch by
inch

he is
heave and
muscle
and hands held
and tight grasp.
and moan thrower
and gasp hurler
and wind sower
and seismic shift.
and thought staller
and think freeze.
and sane stealer
and heat tweaker.
and temperate boiler
and steam sucker.
and thunder feeler
and faint maker.
and shout bearer
and time meddler
and love peddler
and he is
and he is
and he
is...

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from Love Jones: The Date Mixtape, released September 28, 2011

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