Love Language
She kissed him with glitter lips
her flat nose pressed
against a face
resting on a skull
full of thoughts
about how the night
would end
She searched his mouth
for words he couldn’t speak
found his ears
asked for poetry
parents wouldn’t read
He taught her to rhyme
with her toes curled
rolled her over
the pages of past poems
and showed her the basics
of parallelism
