For Love of Common Words: Scafidi – Annie Leibovitz

… and the kiss my [love] just
gave me on the back of my neck will stay here
all day like a tattoo and the easy kiss of rhyme
will also last all day so that if I could, I would
kiss whoever wanted to in the dark I long for
and miss, the yes-kiss, the bliss-kiss, the lovely-
lovely-this-kiss the world is right now, leaning to.

— Steve Scafidi from “After Homer’s Catalog of Ships” Book: For Love of Common Words

Photographer: Annie Leibovitz “Lavazza calendrier 2009”