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Luke Prater Reads

be-all

to kiss 
as if there was another word
tongues searching for that other word

words, ways
to describe this -
tongues, far from foreign 
foraging for exquisite illustration
illustrious forays

to kiss
such that outside eyes
are out of operation 
for longer than it takes 
to have a deep bath
or lunch with a friend

third eyes press like
the pad of sated panthers,
moving this way and that
at the sway of soft brows

to kiss
not foreplay
the be-all meeting of mouths,
of faces, of hidden eyes 
admission to hidden selves

selves we surrender only
when communion is brought
in acts of consummation

yet with lips, only lips
end-all lips

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