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Tilt


Hold yourself upright

tilt your head to one side

look at me

with your short-sight eye

focus and I will bring

my face towards yours 

leaning the other way

so our necks make one

perfect cross, our kiss: 

a screw fastened off centre

lips catch like odd grains

shedding splinters

we don’t come apart, wait

–wait and I will come away

look at you

with my long-sight eye

holding the level out like a rung

–balance it, balance it