Keyhole of the atria

Once you've broken

everything down

to the

bare

fucking

essentials,

what's left___?

A cold skeleton

w/ only

a still suspended

heart,

& then:
you see the fractures

in each bone

every detail of the past

still remaining

as it always will

w/ one main

crack:

the bleeding heart

which cannot

be ignored.

It seems obvious

the source

is between

the left

& right atria,

so you dig

though perhaps

gently at times

w/ tiny fingers

tugging on

two upper chambers

to peer into

a bloody keyhole

where there

is a comfort

in light,

though surrounded

by an opaque hue

that no longer

needs

a name.

Can't even give a date for when this was written it's been so many years. 

It is included in my manuscript: Show Heaven to the Sheep