[ Valentines 2020 ] No Bones About It

    
True—I suppose    
   
it would be a bit heavy-  
   
handed with pen at the ready  
   
pressed against chest, emphasizing  
   
how your poetry punctuates! my lungs  
   
dotting these   s   i   g   h   s   of mine  
   
leaving me so  b r e a t h l e s s . . .  
   
but what if such a thing was  
 
proposed literarily by a  
   
poem being purpose-  
   
fully shaped like a  
   
ribcage, eh ..?