The Empress of Kisses
Poems
978-1-68003-089-1 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0.22 in
80 pp.
Pub Date: 04/15/2016
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"This book offers all the pleasures that poetry affords—sonic felicities, skilled wordplay, resonant insights, and unexpected destinations. This is a delightful and memorable book."—Beth Ann Fennelly, final judge, author of Unmentionables
November 9th, 1989
For thirty years there is no kiss.
Then there is the possibility of a kiss,
like a rumble or a half-heard shout—
did it come from this side
or that side? When the kiss
breaks through, we all struggle
to register the impossible,
how the wall came down,
how their lips found each other,
every obstacle reduced to rubble
around their feet, the bright paint
of her lipstick smeared,
unintelligible graffiti all over
the changed angles of his face.
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Published by Texas Review Press