Take my heart
Cardium carpal
Impossible to hold in both hands
In every glorious piece
Valve, ventricle, artery
Pulsing, pulsing — but no blood
Not pink, not red but grey,
Grey matter, but no matter

Take care not to lack a hole by
Ebon ivory of your skeletal hands,
Pulsing, pulsing — but no blood
Only bone grasping endocrine glands
Blood eagled atrium across your palms
Venae cavae hollowed hands.

Rip my heart out
And you will see
Your name inked
On my vena cavae.

Thou, Bulleted name
In the jezro Carter,
Effaced by low flux
At one spot,
Bow and arrowed name
In the cardium carter
Eternal by high affix,
Pulled up with love;
Rip in the marrow..