The moon sits on my tongue. Like snow, it melts, drops of winter, cold white wine, like I ****** the light out of a lightning bug, lemony glow coating my teeth. I swallow the moon. I swallow it like I swallow words, raspberries to crush against the roof of my mouth. I want to eat all the words in the world, every last one sitting warm and ready in my belly, spoons of honey or hot metal, or cold and hard in my throat like stones or cool cucumber slices. I want them to fill me, clutter my thoughts and lungs and settle under my nails and on the tips of my eyelashes to dust my face every time I blink.