Pollen

Is this speaking in tongues?
Am I doing this right?
Your kiss in my lungs,
My hands on your hips,
We swayed all night long.

I could have caught the humming bird
That beat inside your chest
If you weren’t so distracted
With holding your breath.
And you could have kept the great white shark
That swam in my neck
Disguised as the lump in my throat
Holding back everything I wish I would have always said.
Those secrets we kept,
Curled up like rib cages in your tambourine bed;
We rattled like specters led by the lanterns in your head
I would have shaken off every starfish
We took from the sand,
Chased off every bumbling bee that buzzed near your hands,
If I thought
It would keep you breathing .

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