Teach Me

Teach Me

A Poem by Amber Koneval
"

How to Teach your Loved One How to Kiss

"
standing in each others arms
beneath the trees whose boughs were breaking
under the weight of the first snow
you asked me if I could teach you how to kiss.

Well, 
first you have to learn how to breathe out
through the nose, slow and steady
then inhale through the lips to borrow
frosted air from my lungs
sweeter than any air you've ever tasted.
Take as much as you need
{because I'll be stealing from you
all I can get}. 

Then, 
learn to feel your own lips
know their creases, and their dips
press their wrinkles with your tongue
and wet them with your spit.
Chew on the tender, ripe pink skin
and learn them.
Know them, and know what they desire
feel their itch, feel their sting
feel their burning and their yearning
and fall, face first
into the soothing balm of
flesh on flesh. 

Then open,
open wide as you can
and swallow the desperation
take it into yourself and push back with
reassurance
hot, warm and writhing comfort
and I'll do the same for you
pushing our feelings into each other
with such a passion in our bodies
that we can rip each other apart
with a whisper.

To see with our mouths,
to taste with our teeth
to explore with our tongues
the most excruciating vulnerability
that we have.

Lick the wounds
let them prick from the salt
and feel the hurt as it heals
sew the scars with every peck and pucker
and breathe.

If you could kiss me like that,
my dear,
I would kiss you
for real
this time. 

© 2012 Amber Koneval


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Added on October 21, 2012
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Amber Koneval
Amber Koneval

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AMBER KONEVAL is a college student in Denver, Colorado double majoring in English and Religious Studies. She is slated to graduate in December of 2013. Her poetry has appeared in such print.. more..

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