Sunday, June 8, 2025

Mistletoe 2015

  

I have never been kissed under the berries of the mistletoe, always longing for it, too late to the party, the dark tree glistening with strips of tinsel, good to look at, perilous to touch, the same glint I have seen each time I look into her eyes and the slanting of her lips, to measure how it might fit a kiss

 I have never been kissed under the mistletoe though I recall stealing one under the red glow of a bar light on a street where we stood alone in April, long after the Christmas season ended and mistletoe packed up to wait for new season. a kiss I still feel lingering on my lips like this and all this time later, the taste of it so sweet I crave more and more and more


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