I n c i s i o n
Touch of fire from cold steel-tip
like the Sea that pathed Exodus,
a parting from Egypt and Death-
the separation of human flesh
without syringes or ether
Modern lasers mundungus smoke
climbing queer as ivy on stone,
o'er sterile masks, spotlight, loud
breathing the rising spiral stench-
burnt flesh warming latexed fingers.
Surgical stainless clamps applied
to a fissured surge of bloody black,
prompts sheets of thick meshed gauze
absorbing Incisions upwell
like dunes drinking Nor'easter tides.
Motion set in the Theatre,
principals gather in circle,
while the stale of melted dermis
sleeps deep within old ceiling cracks-
like mold in a cold, dark cellar.
Incision marks state permanence
as hypnotics deliver indifference
Consequences of........'' Incision''.
poem by Frank James Ryan Jr.
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