She has painted her lips
hibiscus pink.
The upper lip dips
perfectly in the centerlike a Valentine heart.
It makes sense to me —
that the lips,
the openah of the mouth
is shaped more like a heart
than the actual human heart.
I remember the first time I saw it —veined, and shiny
as the ooze of a snail —
if this were what
we had been taught to drawhow differently we might have
learned to love.
— Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Heart
