❝ Let’s kiss. Let refrain do what it does. From touching,
how skin withstands toxins, organs glued. I love holding you.
Orchestrating the drive down Occidental Blvd, we’re accident in future tense.
Pigeons make a standstill. Coffee stains upholstery. At intersections,
fever is a combination of fear and hot pavement.
Let kiss and chemicals and cannibals and feathers. Unsnap. Unwhip.
Hinging on: how could you? Warp the mouth around open-ended swallows—
birds, I mean. Stay long enough. Let’s happen.
Do what you’re going to.