✨ He Says I Will Kiss You Like This

a falling into sight ...

He Says I Will Kiss You Like This

And lays his eye next to mine, open,
making a new kiss, a new form, a falling into
sight, which is the beginning of all finding,
so now the two of us lay newly found and kiss
by looking, absolute in the winter-burned yard
with the yellowed scraps of moss kissing
the eye of the sun, and the mailman
with his knobbed knees kissing his route,
for in this warm wide open everything kisses
everything else and no one will look away
because how very great was the darkness before
this uptilted arriving immensity of light.

—Annie Lighthart

“He Says I Will Kiss You Like This” is from Pax, Fernwood Press. Copyright © 2021 by Annie Lighthart. Used by permission of Fernwood Press. All rights reserved. www.fernwoodpress.com. Photo by Karsten Winegeart, via Unsplash.