Anthology of dreams (drownedinwords) wrote, @ 2004-10-31 11:46:00

Incision

It is not fatal
to slice the arteries
which run from heart
to heart.
It is not
as if the blood
you release is real
when you perform
the overdue incisions.

Not as if you could drown in it.

Or clot your head
with its glue.

And yet it tastes so vivid afterwards.
As though rather than bleeding,
you have spilled
a flood of old selves
into the world.