The Goodbye Kiss

Why do those lips
moisten my own - years on?
That labial goodbye, with its embrocate
of memory
returns as a tangible ghost.

A time-traveling incubi latches upon my mind again.
A hummingbirds sip,
a recoil of sensory jack-hammers.

Today, words are meaningless,
lips remain pursed to that goodbye moment.

I did not know it was the end back then, but
it is perfectly clear now -

I am over it.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Rone Avatar
December 27, 2021 at 8:39 AM
I think this has such wonderful word-play. "a hummingbird's sip" is marvelous. Thank you Eric - Ken
Ashford Avatar
January 16, 2022 at 10:27 AM
Thanks Ken, I think most of us can relate. Cheers.
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