to memorize
a pair of lips
each day
carried them
to a moment
of silence
and recollection
traced and
retraced them
with pencil
and tongue
lips of a stranger
pressed into
book of flesh
and memory
two stanza
crimsom’d poem
carved into face
where breath
and meaning
might escape.
If u chose
to know
two lips
by heart
by lesser things
like touch
in.dent.ation
with teeth
beneath
with tongue
would those
parted seas
swallow
this war?