Working Definition Series #1
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1 min readMar 2, 2018
A heart
is
a spirit
a ghost
the rooster
pink lips excited
the cold gut bottom
a hot thing
a room with undecided furniture.
It does not live inside your chest
that is for organs
for circulating blood.
It wonders beside you
sometimes a friend
a lover
a beat breaking cry that jerks your ear
diagonal.
It is what you listen for
in the distance
the anticipation of lightning
the smell before illumination strikes
the noise expelled from the body after shock.
