Angina

by Audra Burrell

(Intermittent chest pain caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart)

desire is necrotic           failed flesh

an abscess  learning to be human

drained of savage         impulses

dreams and wild tempests   chained bone-deep

loneliness sutured           in our cerebrum

cells screaming release from     failed remission

wanting too much         from the future of   

forever ravenous         unsated yearning 

we ache in   in hungered absence