Linger

From Nashville

Have you thought about 
words lately
How they feel in your
mouth
How
they bounce from tongue to throat how
yours become mine when I roll them around in my teeth
Stop, Now
they’ve transformed us
moved straight from you into me
Linger
I was given permission
to linger
by a man selling wine
And I lingered long and light
Expanding one moment into the next until it all

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