Arthur Ginsberg, MD Floats in the Delicate Ether of Butterflies, Brain

REFLECTIONS: NEUROLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES Poems

Section Editor Michael H. Brooke, MD

Arthur Ginsberg, MD CONSCIOUSNESS SPINE floats in the delicate you have held me in all matters ether of butterflies, of gravity; Address correspondence and brain spilt extended, flexed and bowed reprint requests to Dr. Arthur Ginsberg, 10470 Meridian into itself, warbling as a reed in the wind. Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98133 through a garden of grey matter, [email protected] Between sculpted blocks, an unmistakable viscous pillows absorb interiority that does not emote, gabble or quack, contortion and shock. All my goods is pre-syntax and babble, are hung upon reigns like a cloud your gallows, viscera over the birth of flowers, suspended like avocados from a bough, gazes across a moat the muscles stitched into the forest to knobby rack, a ridge of pheromones and photons, the din of decibels, like Stegosaurus, and dropping down, and into the reservoir the pelvis wed of itself; a pool to sacroiliac. Bottom end, of unshattered meniscus, vestigial bone of my tail; perched untouched by the tongue on top, the locked box that comes out of the mouth, of my soul. With Newtonian zeal flicking the surface like trout. Mind sifts you have served my dance and line the pre-syllabic library with hubris and strut, in every ridge and rut, priest of the bipedal romp. lifts on muslin wings There will be pain beyond the circuitry, as my plumb-line bends, and waits for the anesthesia white-hot Camelias sprouting of sleep, when consciousness from ligaments. In time you will be fibrillates, set free my memory to orbit in the galaxy when mortality’s stripped off the rack, of Galileo’s imagery. Without it, worlds that men propose, you will shiver and rattle reality or dream, through earth’s cold bite, would be unmindfully comatose. the last witness intact.

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