[ NaPo 2017 ] The Bone Cabinet

    
There is so much  
life affirming poetry    
within of you  
   
I run the scalpel  
in a single stroke  
down your sternum  
   
Having sawn through  
the deadbolts of your chest  
while rib cage is firmly secured  
I lay my hands on the best    
kept locked inside your
bone cabinet
   
thump thump  
still is beating  
thump thump  
heart of a poet in my hands  
thump thump  
treating it with all the care in the world  
   
thump thump  
as I'm eating  
thump thump  
feeling it sliding down my throat  
thump thump  
the rhythmic bass, every lyrical note  
keeping pace with the words that you
wrote