beat – Words and Feathers

tacky kardia (20170915)

September 15, 2017September 15, 2017 crow2 Comments

my heart beats
and i feel it in every inch
of my skin

i feel like
i’m inflating
one throbbing pulse

at a time
how will my
collection of hats

fit when i become
as large
as the room?

Poem 20160218

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 crow2 Comments

the path, old unused
overrun with brush–still i
choose this unfulfilled promise

my steps a rhythm
a beat like the human heart
a new view of old vistas
—-

Poem 20150619

June 19, 2015 crow

the slow insistent beating of the heart
not unlike the old man’s
in that story by poe
so loud that it could be heard
through floorboards
and walls
never mind a ribcage
and half an inch of flesh

that slow insistent beating
in my own chest
reminds me that i am alive
and that i have to go for a hike
in the morning
and shopping the next day
and work the day after that

every day the beating of the heart
ba-dum
a calendar
ba-dum
a clock
ba-dum
an hourglass that never runs the sand up
ba-dum
a waterwheel that only turns in one direction
to turn the mill
to grind my bones
to make your bread