The Black Napkin Volume 1 Issue 7 | Page 19

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Systole/diastole

by Devon Balwit

there is something within the heart

that filaments

something tugging down

that unhinges teeth

the heart

in its cavern

is something

killing time

until something

prompts the beat

there

some shard

the (something something) heart

lyrics forgotten

the heart

reanimates

some

membranous

thing

cussed

within