Morning Kiss

Robert Wynne

December 3, 2023

She pulls me to her each morning

and tells me to brush my teeth.

What love there is in a tube of toothpaste!

What wonder in the mint-flavored dreams

of our mouths hungry for each other

after a night of nothing but air.

Robert Wynne earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University.  A former co-editor of Cider Press Review, he has published 6 chapbooks and 3 full-length books of poetry, the most recent being Self-Portrait as Odysseus, published in 2011 by Tebot Bach Press.  He’s won numerous prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies throughout North America.  Recently retired, he lives in Burleson, TX with his wife and their German Shepherd.