Heart Felt

I saw my heart today, beating, beating
like a bellows, an abattoir river
of blood, thick as a quagmire dredging
through the chambers making room for itself.
The technician captures the clamour on screen;
like an old clavichord player pulling the strings,
she has been to the heart of the matter.
The last time I had a sonar graph
there inside me in a small nimbus of light
was a star baby, with ten star fingers.
This time the scan reads more like storm clouds
gathering at the death of day, dark and bloody.

Jean O'Brien

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