“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label blue blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue blood. Show all posts
Monday, August 15, 2016
@ the Piers Edge
I shudder to think of jumping in-
which toe first...
or how to swim?
Perhaps it was warmer then...
Now my icy blue veins are showing through-
But brazenness grows like a dragon in my chest
and i see naked me, vulnerably, visibly,
trembling at the waters edge-
red tears pool about
-then this trepidation
lulls me in
But I stand firm. Rooted. Waiting for the tide to rise,
high enough
to reach me
before I begin
to sink any further.
I remember in there
it is warmer than the air...
Painting by Edvard Munch [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Oct-1-en-3-one (The smell of blood)
You know the taste of your own blood-
You remember you are made mortal-
You reminisce, ruminate in your recipe-
Notes you only know.................................
Those little letters in a vial;
coded coagulation's in combinations
of more than A O B and sometimes Y,
negatives and positives make a clot...........
...a conspiracy of hematology....................
the platelets are empty and white say
Editors of assemblage, connoisseurs of flow...
-Professors of Anatomy-
Who stick it to you, bleed you out, dry to the bone,
just as they always have, herding en mass-
Ewe, the sacrificial lamb.................................
Blood banks built on quicksand
distributing to the needy.
Even today, the cast off sprays the same;
luminol illuminating outcasts-
no doubt, not good enough
to save a life, strategic
in a pinch, a gash gushing................................
anemia, academia-
non-hemocyanin, un-blue-
contaminated, un-oxygenated, discarded
in the slush pile.................................................
There will always be more
able bodies, anti-bodies, veins to tap,
an aortic (Au(ction) gold mine..........................
We are blood letting machines-
We give and take life in sips-
We can taste (Fe(ar) our iron-
Will drained-
We work up to sap-
slowly................................................................
only to give it away for free
Keeping the leeches alive.
Most pungent when fresh, bread and newspapers drop in value proportional to their scent of newness.
Image By No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Chetwyn (Sgt) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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