Teresa K. Miller – Three Poems

Teresa K. Miller

Three Poems

Diagnosis

If the vessels were empty      might fill them insignificant glass beads, transition words and sentences, or communism inflammatory the pericardial and pulmonary tissues facilitating the motion entry and exit a room with one or many desks. When two bodies brush along a bar and attempt to discern pronouns the affliction exists in differentiating symbols, in the crash of wood on metal, the impossibility of osmosis. In the denoting Sunder Since meeting you I shy from speaking writing in tongues as distance. I tried to reinvent the you and I, fragmented both of us.  Splintered I where you ferment refusal to undulate insistence on crashing. I become becomes prohibitionist to my own body, homeopath taking which you in ever- larger doses to ward off which you. Diagnosed One lungful overwhelming particularly when it is three or repetitive in unconscious like an accordion book a fan that shuttles the makings of words in and out of bodies noiselessly the transfer across membranes and into minds an illness of interface of shreds to communicate that establish where the decomposition begins between cells letters the words that describe the cation and anion the organs purifying blood accompanying the accordions music like depletion dripping at joints like incomplete excavation

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