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THE KISS

 

Her arm around his neck, his meaty hand

upon her thigh, which elsewise would fall open,

his torso upright and one leg beneath her,

the other steady like a rocky causeway,

her body winding up to hang below him,

she pulls his head towards her and her head

inserts itself into his like a wedge.

...

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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