First Kiss-FK

First Kiss is a poem written by Kim Addonizio. The poem is on long stanza consisting of twenty-one lines. Basically the Addonizio uses a long metaphor to compare a first kiss she shared with someone, to breast feeding her daughter. Addonizio begins by comparing the look on her babies face when she has to stop breast feeding the her, to the look on the person she is kissing face when they stop. She continues to compare her baby with the person she shared this kiss with. Now she says the person she kissed has the same look of dependability and helplessness that her baby has when she wants to breast feed again. I found it interesting that at the end of the poem that Addonizio says that although the person she is kissing is vulnerable he is impossible to hurt like her baby. To me this shows how much Addonizio loves the person she is kissing because she doesn't/can't hurt this person even though they are vulnerable. Also the fact that Addonizio compares her baby to the person she is kissing shows how much Addonizio loves that person. When reading this poem one word I had to look up was loll. Loll means hang loosely. Addonizio used this word when explaining how her baby's head hung when breast feeding it.