Clandestine Kisses

Marilyn Buck

1990

for Linda and her love

Kisses
bloom on lips
which have already spoken
stolen clandestine kisses

a prisoner kisses
she is defiant
she breaks the rules
she traffics in contraband women's kisses

a crime wave of kisses
bitter sweet sensuality
flouting women-hating satraps
in their prison fiefdoms
                    furious
                    that love
                    can not be arrested

February 1990
Published in Concrete Garden, 1996