This is a love poem about love and its importance.
Why the mouth?
Why is it the mouth we put to the mouth, the final moment?
Let me take this out, so I can see all of the poem.
The Border Inside Us.
Why the mouth?
Why is it the mouth we put to the mouth at the final moment?
Why not the famous groin?
Because the groin is far away.
The mouth is close up against the soul.
Before setting out for years in prison,
men coupled desperately all night,
but that is the body's goodbye.
We kiss the person we love, last thing before the coffin is shut,
because it is our being touching something unknown.
A kiss is the frontier inside us.
It is where the courting becomes the courtship, where the dancing
ends and the dance begins.
The mouth is our chief access to the intimacy in which she
may reside, her mouth is the door
of the brain, the forecourt of the heart, the way to a mystery
enthroned where we meet momentarily
amid the seraphim and the power.