The heart
may be
deceptively
absent
deceptively
absent
Insidious,
presenting only
loss
loss
Absent
Alone
Fatal
Its nature-
irregular
tangled masses of
destruction/
response/
destruction/
response
Difficult
deeply buried
ground fresh
Growing
Healing
through time
(perhaps).
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Tuesday Platform (though inspired by a prompt I missed at dVerse Poets Pub about black out poetry!) I used one of my husband's outdated pathology books for this one!
