Heart Surgery by Alex Prince
+ work with Alex next week at our workshop!
A cavity-nesting bird,
fist of trembling
sinew and feather,
thrumming.
Hollow-boned,
stitches stretched thin
to snapping.
Muscle sliced
and folded.
Beak drumming,
drumming,
its cadence skipping.
Fast-breath and bound.
Straining to fly.
Alex Prince is teaching a workshop with us next week! Join her in a gorgeous blackout poetry exercise, transforming your health records (or similar documents) into something beautiful.