fasting and penance
for my cardiac exam
Good Friday morning
Tag: heart
1742👩🏼⚕️
my doctor does not
change her opinion
eat less and walk more
1716💔
hearts attack no one
long suffering and abused
until they fight back
1671
drummer in my chest
does eight-to-the-bar
a stiffening blow
1659⛄️❤️
not my abstract heart
but the real one— letters
from the health clinic
1645👩🏼⚕️
the ultra-sound tech
she listens to what my heart
is really saying
1460
I kept every one
our string of hearts that wilted
after you left me
1416
wake to a chest pain
just a ten pound cat
my heart his pillow
704
spools of red thread
scissors and needles
a heart to mend
622
curls on my chest
a tea cozy
enfolds my heart
434
no, no more emails
somewhere in warmth and quiet
we’ll mix wine with truth
260
this heart is hemmed in
with fire breaks and cold trails
no flame can touch it
ARTERIES
A plumber snakes clogged
Pipes while I sit and watch,
Jelly doughnut in one hand,
Checkbook in the other.
