"When your heart first lights for
someone, you cover its mouth.
You hush it and tell it to be
cool. Please be cool. You wait
for it to grow until it warms
your whole body and then you
can feel it in your teeth every
time you’re together. You can
hear those words rattling inside
every ‘goodnight’. You’re waiting
for the right time, or to work
up the courage, or for it to get
so big it leaks out when you’re
falling asleep and your guard’s
down. When it’s out, it hangs
in the air like smoke. You wait
to see if there’s fire in your
partner’s heart too."