the taste of your tongue
– tingles –
when you have been drinking peppermint tea
taste
summer love
sweeter than ice cream
salt as the ocean beyond the horizon
a snap of peperoncino
May your dreams
May the colour of your dreams be golden
May their taste be softest honey
Skin salt, sweet lips
The taste of the sea stayed with Steno though he washed his mouth with wine and ate his meal of honey. The night would be long.
Aftertaste
From salty
to soapy
to sweetly, smoothly, dry
To sweeten your mouth
To sweeten your mouth from the aftertaste of cherry and of me
I offer you mango;
But then your tears at the stone, the soul of the fruit.
Rose 1
– A rose by any other name…
– What are you on about?
-I ‘m saying, it don’t matter what it’s called…
– I am NOT eating a dognut!
Franki remembers his granny
My granny used to taste my hair to see if I’d been swimming in the sea instead of going to church. Now, when my partner’s lips touch mine, I wonder, fleetingly, what they might discover.
simonsalento 