It's the skin on skin basics:
You may touch, but please don't look.
I hand him a pinecone,
pale petals,
and some Tulgeywood bark
saying "Feel it out in the dark,"
saying
"Can you tell me what that is?
Can you dab your flesh on those pine needles,
***** your tips in the dark?
Feel it out in the light now.
Can you taste it:
Can you lap it, lick it?
Bite it, mosquito, bite
'til your lips are swollen
and
'til your teeth are blunted
and
'til the thought of one more cigarette
is enough to
make you sick,
make you smile,
make you laugh for a short while or an hour or two...
Spit, ***** spit; you're a jumpy little mare.
If you don't know what a pinecone feels like
I'll break all 13 hands of you.
Can you press petals in your fingers
and call it the skin on the small of my back?
Call the dew in small beads the perspirin' of my lust?
Can you do that for me?
Imagine, for a second?"
I imagine for a second—
I imagine for a second or two.