Today's poem is by Sarah Stockton

Metaphors Attempted in Conversation with my Doctor
       

      ~ My heart is at the center
                of a hybrid ecosystem. Consider
a tree
                in which blood-sap ferries
the biotics
                of essential energy

      ~ I am the ghost rider
                of a virus that will live
longer
                than my own beliefs
which eviscerates
                everything

      ~ all life
                connected, circulating
brachia and vagus
                permeating these lands
which are not
                my ancestral ground
only
                my temporary home

      ~ this fragile body
                is floating on blood-borne waters
                and I'm sinking

      ~ If the heart is
                the center of the trunk of a tree
then my body
                is a carved and weathered cedar boat
rocking in the wind's wake
                rocking
                            I rock myself to sleep

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Copyright © 2024 Sarah Stockton All rights reserved
from The Scarecrow of My Former Self
Moonpath Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission