Badge
from my lover
Jan 10, 2023
You award me
A badge
in the dark
A milky stream to spill
onto the musky cover
Fastened onto
my left breast
You cheekily smear it
with your thumb,
Into my sternum, into my rib cage
You reward me
with a delicate kiss
Upon my clavicle
Your intoxicating twin
planes, a coveted seal
This molten stain pools
pungent upon my chest
I’ve claimed your signature,
ink still glistening
in the luminous, nocturnal crescent
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