Love Poem: Our First Kiss
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Written by: Crystol Woods

Our First Kiss

All these dark and secret places 
only I have known and explored. 
The hidden other-world
 of lips and teeth and tongue. 
Mine alone for these many years. 
The tastes, both bitter and sweet. 

The feel of my mouth, the sensitive swollen softness 
of my bottom lip between a gentle bite.
 I scrape it along my teeth. 
Hidden in plain sight, 
a constant awareness in the back of my mind. 
So busy, in motion, often habitual. 

Then two worlds meet…

I taste your lips, their texture and shape. 
Flashes of lightning track 
from the tip of your pink tongue
 through my core.
 I am aware of my womb
 for the only time it has known pleasure instead of pain 
as a sweet tension and ache begins there.  
A million nerves come alive
 as the muscle in my mouth twists and licks, 
getting to know your smile from behind your teeth. 
We dance in this inner world, 
the most intimate communication I've ever known. 
How very strange it is to desire someone else's spit!
 I shake my baffled head at this but, yes,
 let me sip at that sweet nectar 
like a little hummingbird…
as I hummmm…