by David Keplinger

He didnt want the EKG. He didnt want

To know. But the nurse attached

Its greasy1 patches to his chest to read.

From which all things spray violent

And out, there is a point of singularity.

In Michelangelos sculpture of the heart,

For instance, the heart wears the cosplaytume

Of Davids body. In the eyes of the Judean

There is no fear of what the heart has made.

You are going into cardiac arrest, this nurse said.

Thats when he saw the thing the other way:

Something mute sat like a stone

Inside the clenching2 and unclenching of his heart.

He had the stone. only it would pay attention.