First transect
Then bisect my pelvis.
Split the perineum in two
That split me into
The tiller and the hunter.
Wear gloves to balk the lightening,
Once a thousand miles
And a child away.
Pudendal sparks the romping
Lovers hiding in a garden
Hide in flesh where flesh conspires
Tag it for the practical.
Six muscles of the eye
And one of upper lid
gently blink, wink the rounded name:
A circle penned in circles
Then all we see is circular?
In my experience,
Yes, that is so.
Our lives are simple summations
Of what we choose
And what recruits our sight.
The apples that look dangerous
Probably are.
The mandible's refusal
Potentially more dire
A masseter and philosophical dilemma
Posited by the frontal lobe.
Still, taste receptors bind
Covenants
Carried by the facial nerve.
And all of this
All of me
The brachial plexus, its branches, a tree
Spins your gold
Our tapestry.
Author notes
This is about my Gross anatomy experience. Many of the medical words are parts of the body. This poem explores the similarities of all men and how our shared history ties us together.
The perineum is the part of the body that houses the reproductive organs.
Pudendal is a nerve that innervates teh genitals.
A practical is what we call the gross anatomy exam.
The mandible is the lower jaw.
The masseter is a muscle that assistes with chewing.
The frontal lobe helps with executive descision making.
Taste receptors on the tongue innervate the facial nerve, which helps to distinguish taste.
The brachial plexus is a complex web of nerves that originate near the shoulder.
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I like this a lot. Thank you so much for entering it in my contest. I think it's very interesting how you incorporated the medical terms into it, and I also like how the Biblical references were subtle, and not overt. Good luck!
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