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# How Much a Kiss Can Release
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/how-much-a-kiss-can-release/
- Published: 2022-11-29T00:09:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:02:57.000Z
- Description: Mind abuzz, body stiff, I take my meds and wait for rest. For by now the clouds have come and gone and brought no rain, the dishes are put away, all juice squeezed from the day...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

Mind abuzz, body stiff, I take  
my meds and wait for rest. For  
by now the clouds have come  
and gone and brought no rain,  
the dishes are put away, all  
juice squeezed from the day:  
I am dead to the world.  
Lightning strikes and I don’t  
move; concussed, I hear poets  
talk of banalities—taxes,  
errands—beg them to recite  
a verse or two. I glimpse you,  
asleep, hips pressed to the bedsheet  
like moonlight on fresh snow; a  
warmth, like rum on the throat,  
passes through me, then flutters  
off, a scrap of paper bearing great  
secrets—how to stay warm when  
the fire goes out, why my favorite  
color is whatever catches in your  
eye—I once knew intimately. O,  
the secrets are on the tip of my  
tongue! Well into morning I  
think of how much a kiss can  
release, of all the knowledge that  
only your waking could rouse me to.