Like the way.

Thumb and index finger held together
for a cigarette-
hand falling carelessly
off an edge
of wrist.
Swell at the base of your thumb
(Show me your life line.
Does it stretch like a bracelet
around your wrist?)
rising up like your chest when you breathe
hard.
Hard like the way you're kissing me.
(Please stop)
Hard like the way you're leaving me.
(I need to go)
Hard like the way back home.
(Not home)