Monday, June 13, 2011

Circulation

Writers, blood donors
Left weaker but stronger
By transference of essence

A stranger benefits, or else
Red pouches of rectangular life
Rest untouched on dusty shelves

Nurses & librarians
In hospitals for bodies & minds
Blood & books on carts with bar codes

Your blood is inside of you but it is not helping anyone
Your blood is only noticed in emergencies

2 comments:

  1. The second line is the most interesting to me because I read it wrong the first time. I took it first to indicate the left side of the body where not only the heart is, but also the left side of the brain--where all those vocabulary words and grammar rules are kept.

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  2. Very interesting. A case where an error makes it better.

    (One might say at first you didn't read it right---you read it *left*...)

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