Tender Burden

What did you like best?

This.

biting
a pear sweet-flesh
yielding, juice
bursting

root beer nipping
like drinking
morning

Your skin
all salt and
honey-peach

kiss
your cheek
your tear-wet lashes
dance
like butterflies

Can you bear to remember it all?

I can
not
bear
to remember any
less

1998

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