This poem is taken from PN Review 144, Volume 28 Number 4, March - April 2002.
Two Poems
Patience
You know exactly the name
of every bone in my anatomy
and point out, gently,
my supraclavicular fossa.
You lower your head expertly
onto the shipwreck of my ribs,
explaining that although my heartbeat
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