My love’s kisses taste like salt Her heart pressed thin pumps tears My love’s lips are black and bursting Clouds spilling over with my love’s fears My love’s kisses taste like rain Rain running red with my love’s woe My love’s eyes are green with spleen Reaping what her kisses sow My love’s kisses taste of loss Taste of childhood, and taste of sleep My love’s kisses are hits and misses But when she hits, my love goes deep And my love sings like the rocks in her shoes Swamping all things in a landslide of blues My love swings like a swallow in a gale Up beating her wings, low to dodge the hail My love’s kisses taste like trees Old pine spires longing for hugs My love’s hands are baby honey bees And my love’s feet are no bigger than bugs Yes my love’s kisses taste like longing Taste like ashes in a Sibelian suite Yes my love’s kisses are hits and misses But when she hits, her love cuts deep Oh my love is an otter dissembling a tiger Take heed ye meaning to see or be inside her For her lips were made for slashing and her hips for gnashing And when my love gets blue she’ll gush like a geyser And my love sings like the rocks in her shoes Swamping all things in a landslide of blues My love swings like a swallow in a gale But I know she’ll cut through it in time I know my love won’t fail