kissing offers prayers on deliverance from danger or a prelude to wounding

Kissing occurs in skirmishes, wallops, or big gulps.
Pressing lips to lips or lips to objects jolts both souls.
Is kissing particular to mammals? Have you watched lizards or insects kiss?
Can you imagine kissing our grave, bearded waiter?
This kiss delivers a long-awaited verdict.
Kissing maps a hazardous passage.
Kissing offers prayers on deliverance from danger or a prelude to wounding.
Two people kiss at the bottom of a lake, silt swirling around them.
Kissing grips kissers as the coldest winter on record gripped Europe.
Kissing makes plain the body's resolve.
Kissing references a text that no longer exists, which we try to conjure back into existence by kissing.

[Amy Gerstler {1956- } 'Kissing', from Scattered at Sea]