Sunday, January 26, 2020

Can You Find a Pulse or Dry Needle Trigger Point?

  • I read nothing but poetry now and only as long as my eyes allow
  • Tablet ink and tablet pencil and me currently vacationing from each other (at least me from them), there's here
  • digital tablet I can't conceive fuck ever me disconnecting
  • one hour a day with fountain pen ink, paint brush, ruler I trust
  • pencils, watercolors, fountain pen ink in fountain pens
  • save me (second only to hiking with Earthgirl) (third
  • only to this goddamn digital tablet), I got Doctor Sevrin ears









TRIPTYCH FOR TOPOLOGICAL HEART

Alice Fulton

it befalls us. an exchanged glance, reflective spasm.

Is it a fantastically unlaminated question set in flesh
or valentine that wears the air as its apparel?
If you cut a heart from parchment, is it still
a heart? A nontrivial knot, where turns of every gradient
may kiss and tell. Does the vessel have edges?
Or is it all connectedness, an embedding to be stretched
or bent. Imagine being simultaneously alive,
bound in both directions with a bow! Is it diachronic,
a phenomenon that changes over time? Without ardor
theory suffers. That’s why I’m stuck on you with wanton glue, per-
severing, styling something blobbish and macabre
into something pointed, neat. Love is a gift
that springs from an unlit spot. Resin and rue.
Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.
 
say it quivers rather than contracts, fluttery with ruptions.
               
Doctors call it holiday heart. Valentine’s Day — 
named for a saint whose head is venerated in Rome — 
is also National Organ Donor Day, okay?
Give anatomical dark chocolates infused with true
invariance. With smoked salt pepper and beau-
jolais in a plain brown box embellished with praises
in a romance language in your hand. Please
none cosseted in plush like the stuff inside
a coffin. I’m just praying. Can you find a pulse
or dry needle trigger point? Just saying
this fudge has tears in it. Someone’s been sweating
over this. Listen, Mr. Stethoscope, I’m at the end
of my hope. Still, I’ll grow another
blossom for that blossom-crowned skull.
 
some give vinegar valentines. no pillow words.
   
Just floppy organ thistleburr. Froot Loops and craft
wire fashioned on a snarky jig: “To My Pocket Prince.”
“By Bitch Possessed.” Tough tits, isn’t it? Some call it a day
marked by commodified flowers, obligation chocolate.
Some live on clinical sprinkles, asking where’s the feast.
The carnelian pin with openwork components
that let you see its self-pleasuring mechanism, storm
hormones, and single pulsing vein. What even is it?
Here’s the thing. A gift cannot be cynical
unless the giver is. I will pay you to test this
for me. Its closets vast with steadfastness at best
at least for me surpass all other closets in the flesh.
I’m sending this from my memory foam head.
Valentines intensify the surface, heart the depths.

1 comment:

  1. 1)the green is nice

    2)skeptic that i am, i looked it up - feb. 14 IS national organ donor day -

    2a)also the national day website monitors social media and has concluded that today is national kobe day, understandably enough given the algorithms it's working with

    https://www.whatnationaldayisit.com/today/

    3)national cat day or international cat day or world cat day apparently does not have a globally standardized date

    https://tinyurl.com/whendoescatdayoccur

    4)ian welsh agrees with me that bernie is our best possible choice - i am proud that my weekly donation went through this week too

    5)my otitis media seems to be improving too

    6)Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Paul McCartney iTunes Live (HD)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYo2LrnCOAM

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