I haven’t moved since the first time you kissed me. Your lips drip laughter onto my chapstick, filling the space between my teeth, moving over my esophagus, slowly — burning beneath my ribs. This sweet warm wax, honey in my veins, bubbling, hardening in my lungs — squeezing the slightest sound of surprise, surrender, from my diaphragm and I give myself, relaxing in your arms, to this feeling in my molten stomach. My skin stiffens, my eyes glaze, my lips frozen somewhere between a smile and a pucker. Stuck in this split second, gazing at you, encased in amber.