just to be next to your bones

Stumbled across a beautiful poem the other day thanks to a blog I'm fond of. The end just slays me. A big hit to the heart.

But one kiss levitates above all the others.
The intersection of function and desire.
The I do kiss.
The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss.
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.       

-from The Archipelago of Kisses by Jeffrey McDaniel



* P.S. Archipelago just so happens to be one of my favorite words. Isn't it the coolest?