Kiss Yourself

Run your tongue around your mouth.
Feel the teeth unique to you,
Shaped by your life, your events.

No one else, no one among
The billions of living beasts,
The billions of breathing minds,

Can feel what your tongue can feel
Exactly in the middle
Of your own well or wounded,

Intimate, personal mouth
That’s accompanying you
Through every experience,

Social or solitary,
Painful, conversational,
Tight-lipped, pursed, eating, laughing,

This feel inside your own mouth.
This means whatever meaning
You can taste that’s yours alone.