Arsenic Lobster poetry journal        Issue Six   2004
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Spleen
Mark Cunningham

: the lungs balloon: muscles can’t hold out: during a deep breath: much less the unhinging that jars: even thought’s chaff into the wind: you’ve yawned: but if you’re worn past weakness: bashed nearly beyond: return: the spleen: clenching: starts its anti-yawn: stored blood squeezes into circulation: veins and arteries contract: keep the pressure up: your focus tightens: you’ll be back: a dream: is the body’s echo: the body is: the spleen’s echo

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