The archipelago of kisses

But one kiss levitates above all the others. The
intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.
The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss.
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

~Jeffrey McDaniel, the last lines from The Archipelago of Kisses. Such good lines from such a dreadfully-titled poem.