a heart (poem)
a heart
probably one donated to science
heart the metaphor exits scene
psyche the metaphor can’t object
she hadn’t needed heart, heart wasn’t feeling
psyche without heart’s part thrives yet
raises finished things she’s knitted
furnished with both fiber and fat
names them, explains them, discards them in their slots
heart sent abroad to man the guard-box
heart assigned alone to stand
where executions might be greenlit
by phone, heart to intervene
on heart’s own wisdom heart to trounce
a giant ego, a Philistine
a heart
Drimoct
(2020, Stephanie Foster)