the 12 days of christmas - day 2

here's something a little bit lighter - a sonnet in tetrameter, on first kisses. 

we've all met a tourist or two along the way, or been one ourselves, haven't we?

(i would also like to credit photoshop for popularising (ok well not necessarily popularising) the usage of the photographic terms "dodge" and "burn" in the sense of "lighten" and "darken".)

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