there is a flamboyant ticker tape missing
from these little words that float around you
there are no yellow prints on your dance floor
explaining the choreography and
there is no kiss in my ramble
i like it when my poems lean in
and peck you on the check
or hover over the pink coral
of your pleasure
but i am so afraid
i am afraid i will not be famous
famous in the world and the company
of your pink coral of pleasure
i am afraid i will not make
a poem about your kiss that is
a sovenier of the isle of temptation
that is delight with a nervous edge
that is driftwood bumping against rapture
i am nervous the parade of nuance
led by the cadillac of confidence
will pass under the highrise without
the streamers of enchantment floating
around the coast of your pink coral