The poem "First Kiss" is written by Kim Addonizio. The poem is one verse and 21 stanzas long. The poem descirbes the poet's first kiss with a man and she compares that feeling to her daughter's breast feeding action. The poem is almost written as a conceit poem which is a long metaphor. Almost three quarters of the poem is comparing the kiss to breastfeeding.
The first two verses describe the man's drugged look, which could mean his drunk look for love or lust or passion. The verse "as though behind them the milk was rising up to fill her" could mean how the man was filled with energy after it, like a meter turning up.
The verses " the wild flailing and crying until she fastened
The poem goes on to describe the intensity of the kiss until she comes back to reality and describes the situation of the kiss where the man leans back on a chain fence by a burnt down church. This image could represent some kind of sin maybe or how they should not be together but they are.
The last three verses that state "a man
The first two verses describe the man's drugged look, which could mean his drunk look for love or lust or passion. The verse "as though behind them the milk was rising up to fill her" could mean how the man was filled with energy after it, like a meter turning up.
The verses " the wild flailing and crying until she fastened
herself to me and made the seal tight
between us, and sucked, drawing the liquid down
and out of my body;" could represent the moment their lips touched and the description becomes very visual, describing the kiss and exchange of bodily fluids. The poem goes on to describe the intensity of the kiss until she comes back to reality and describes the situation of the kiss where the man leans back on a chain fence by a burnt down church. This image could represent some kind of sin maybe or how they should not be together but they are.
The last three verses that state "a man
who was going to be that vulnerable,
that easy and impossible to hurt." represent how the man is weak but he is such a gentleman, that no woman would want to hurt him, therefore he is impossible to hurt. He may also be impossible to hurt because he is with her, who will protect her like her daughter that she was breastfeeding before.
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