The Heart Bucket

Wherever he goes

the hearts too slung

across his back and

the beating in his ears

of the hearts he carries

new-repaired and ready

to give life again and

calling out he sells

for discount but the

guarantees are not

and his mask is clean

and his surgeon’s robes

and the instruments he

uses too and business is

better now than it’s ever

been it’s all he can do

to keep up night after

night revivifying dust in

the prayerful palms of

his powerful hands so

that everything can be

made ready again for

morning and those in

need of finer blood …