I walked through The Engine of Life, the giant
walk-through heart, through its blood-pulsed places,
seeking the path, exploring valves, following the current
of my classmates. Touching walls, cardiac muscle was touched,
as were raised arteries clammier than my palms. My
feet shuffled through two chambers, feeling the fibre-glass
contours unyeilding through my thin soles. In near dark
I moved from venticle to ventricle, near deaf, thrilled
with pounding. All around the enormous heartbeat,
sensed, artificial, larger than all life, relentless. Just
there my heart was as small as a sparrow's, its living
compartments ready to seize in silence. Emerging,
my mouth gaped in wonder, knowing--just then--
where I was in this world, one untold millions have
since passed through.
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