Skerricks (small moving parts)

 … after finding a reason: for there are reasons. for those who see the inside as interminable knotting and unknotting, a degree, a dense of lost, that is grim in its fright, a hollowness that is void of everything, every skerrick of wonder, including the self … this, breaks hope hearts daily. behind the sternum lies a thin passage between the chest wall and the wall of the heart. between the chest and the heart. the pericardium, the myocardium, the…the passage is a tight one. below the apse of the heart is the continual rising of the wings of the diaphragm membrane. the passage around the cape of the bulb is one traversed by a repeated pressing of the self against the self. rounding and then ascending to the cavity that nestles heart between warm lungs the pressing is more urgent, at the interval between one rushing of air and the other the lungs lie pink and smooth and soft. the pouring begins from further up the warmth descends she is filled with it. inside the centrifuge is the tide, and the first of the openings belongs there. there are others of course the eyes take in, and the thin skin on the outer stretch of the forehead skull bone, and all through the dermis. but it is mainly at the throat that light enters  …