Sitting On Your Tongue

Sitting on your strong capacious tongue

is what I loved to do when I was young.

Textured, warm and long, it did not chafe.

It made me feel inordinately safe.

I knew, somehow, that it would never follow

you would ever think to lap me up and swallow.

But if you’d planned to do so – and I knew it –

I doubt I ever would have thought to rue it.









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