Susan Utting
POEMS
My HeartIt's muscular, crepuscular,
auricular, ventricular,
bicuspidly, tricuspidly
it beats a lot, repeats a lot
a fleshy thing, a messy thing
it's mitral sino-atrial
aortically, retortically
it's cardiac, amnesiac
it's rhythmical, sympatical,
it fibrillates, it vacillates
it lubs a bit then dubs a bit
it beats me how to handle it.
from the anthology Spring
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