Coeur Solitaire

the empty chambers of a heart buried deep, low beneath a vibrant earth, darkly fed by brackish storms washed into catchbasins wetly percolate through broken clay through caverns delved by mineral roots building languid waves silent currents pushed upon borders of an unseen shore burbled by eyeless minnows flushed by distant moons as the weight of earth above expands the slurried ache of a lighter place of a softer face a notion gentle bumps along carried on iron platelets deep past rasping ventricles contracted expanded contracted through derelict cataracts rising above to clean artesian spent in marble fountains and walking by in swelted heat startled by the cool curtain she smiles.