Fragments

I wish not to die before kissing your skull
And kissing your bones
And not to die
Without following the painful curvature of your spine with my tongue

Not to die before smoking your ecstasy
Fragments
Fallen pieces of this heart
Sinking into the deep Mediterranean
Into pipes and tubes and holes
Into winds and snows

Forbidden knowledge
That you will deny me,
Kisses that you are never going to give me,
Forever

RC