kissing lessons

After first kisses
come better and best kisses (though
first ones have
unique sweetness, it’s true.)
A kissing relationship
should be like conversation:
no one is only talking
or listening. Each of you is both
teaching how you kiss, and
learning how the other kisses. You begin

passionately, furiously -
or tentatively, yearning. You shift

gears together, pushing speed
tearing around your frantic curves
and powering through straightaways,
pulling back slowing down going deeper

into the abyssal bliss
of a moment drawing out
into infinite sense
with less than a conscious thought

- getting yourselves completely lost,
and if you're luckiest,
finding yourselves
in the other. You both

know how to kiss! You've kissed before
- you've seen it
in the movies at least. It’s basic
and it's imitable.

But neither of you knows
how you kiss - how you two kiss.
You learn by paying attention
to what the other is doing,
by giving into it
and giving back to it. You pick up
tips and tricks to what they like
wordlessly.

You surprise each other
and yourselves as well,
and if your styles and tastes and likes
and wants and needs
are a good match, compatible -

you'll soon be ascending
to levels of mutual mastery.