Where the Thoughts Come From
I think in differnet places.
Calculus is in the crinkled skin of my forehead
and tight at the apex of my scalp
Marching is in my bones
and meaty joints
Music is in my eyes and mouth
And at best, tense in my larynx and core
Writing hovers riotously in my belly
And spills from my twitching palms
The hard sciences are in the air
And I grasp for them
Art is in my soft yielding heart and
my miming mouth and brow
Stress is coiled around my uppermost vertebrae
sharply poking into between my shoulders and lower in the small of my back
Procrastination is in the biceps and
the weak chin
Inferiority is in my viscera and
more painfully in my tendons
My loves are in my lungs
like liquid
My grief is in my throat
like choking
My fears are in my thighs
They tremble
And it spreads from there.