Showing posts with label anatomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anatomy. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Bones of A Water-Logged Persistence (Swimmer's Lilt)


A hospitable transmutation—
         Converting nature to nature and form to form

A morpheme unexpected
Provides an individuality all it’s own

Where in duodenum, a plurality’s construed
While in jejunum, emptiness is found after death,
The ileum is the tertiary of the small
It connects to the Cecum, a pouch, uniting the small to large

Phenotypic variation is essential
when evolving from shallow to deep
Genetic pools that drown us under—
A quick flushing finds a tide reigning upon sensation

If not for the (sick) gills mutation’s provided
I’d have floated jetsam like the rest—unable to
Find stowage in some (ill-tempered) future’s ark
         Yet I can swim, and I’m free to swim
Even in these predatory seas,
         I still have a chance, I still have chance, water-wings and all

An extremely late entry to this week Open Link Night over at D'Verse.

My niece brought home a nasty cold from day care a few weeks ago, and I had thought I escaped it's wrath, but last Wednesday I awoke feeling quite miserable, which of course I poo-pooed aside, as a case of getting out of bed on the wrong side.  Well, as the day progressed, so did the bug.  Needless to say I got some medicine and for the most part hadn't really left the house too much since then.  Outside of a couple visits to the store for necessities and a foolish jaunt to the movies on Sunday when I was feeling better, (relapse anyone?), pretty much been a sleep fest with a side of chicken soup.  Well, feeling much better now, but not going to make the same mistake twice, going to keep laying low for the next couple of days until I'm confident this bug is gone for good, which I'm able to do.  Funny thing, it's the first case of unemployment actually allotting me anything of benefit:)  

So, anyhow, haven't been writing really much of late.  But I happened to find the framework of the piece I'm posting right now, which I tweaked a little bit right now, as I didn't want to miss out on OLN and the great company of the D'Verse poets.  So, hopefully I'll be up to speed come tomorrow for tomorrow's event.  I am hopeful that'll be the case, as, (knock on wood), -actually knocking-I am actually feeling much better.  Anyhow.  Quit reading this and head on over to D'verse for the last few hours of Open Link Night. Cheers.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Ocular Dysfunction

Tearing at the tendons
Ripping the sinew,
My heart, my love
Forgiveness was overdue

Gnawing at the cartilage,
Dissecting the hyaline
My one, my only
When did severance begin?

Lens produce the image
Pupils guide it through
A retina is built in layers
A portion sensitive to light
But it’s the nerve,
Conducting impulses to the brain

Too many valves,
So small a chamber,
Our union seemed so promising
If only the maturation
Wasn’t appositional
Perhaps the varicosity
Could have been relieved