The Imperishable Divide
How the heart
with its necessary
division maintains
its tasks changing
color as it moves
from one chamber
to the other with
news of the furthest
and messages
for the closest
How it especially
takes the breath
through hinterlands
How susceptible
to ache and
ready to swell
in pride or
cower in
disappointment
How it heals itself
and breaks and scars
How it is damaged
by blockages anywhere
in the system but
How its wholeness
is always various
and when healthy
throbs with near-mad
hope and believes
if it is not endless
it is at least prepared
to give itself over
to the waiting
hands of its children
to be carried in their
hearts as though
there is a unity across
the imperishable divide