Today when you kissed me

I knew it was fall again

I felt the year come around

I felt your flannel shirt on my skin.

And your arms around me

Felt different and the same.

Later I sniffed you

Carrots and soap

Like last November

Today, when you kissed me,

I tasted your tongue;

Shy, and peeking out of your teeth.

It reminded me of the way you would

Kiss me last September

Hesitantly and sweetly keen,

Like you were carefully tasting

A peach.

Today was a day

I could feel autumn in your skin;

Gold leaves, crunching on your lips.