30/30 Prompt – Day 1 June
We decided to continue with 30/30 for the months with 30 days in them, so this is the first prompt for June.
- The human embryonic heart begins beating at around 21 days after conception. It is unknown how blood in the human embryo circulates for the first 21 days in the absence of a functioning heart.
- The average human heart beats 100,000 times a day and weighs the same as a small pigeon (around 10 oz)
- The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime–that’s enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.
WRITE A POEM WHERE EACH LINE FEATURES A DIFFERENT BODY PART.
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
We’re told the head is a good place to start
if you’re trying to tame the heart
or grab with a deliberate taming arm
errant emotions poised to harm, sweet eyes
who’s green flash mimics a diver’s back
fading amongst the kelp; quivering limbs
anchored to wrecks, porthole eyes empty
in the gloaming, filtering like kidneys,
the wrack, the silt, the rich tongues of stuff,
we yearn to tangle with like hands in a game
of cat’s cradle. But really it’s the stomach
we should start with; that’s where the fist of pain is.
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Ooops. Repeat of tame / taming was a mistake there.
Maybe something like a “wrestlers arm” would have been better.