Heart Wit Claim

I'm boring through your ventricles
I'm being terribly invasive
My quiet warm breath 
Keeping measure and pace
         To such meticulous work
Fills your four chambers
         You don't feel one thing
         You feel everything
So close, so intimate
         My eyelids flutter against your tricuspid valve
My whole body is fluttering now
         Because now
         With my lips brushing against your aortic rigatoni
         I am swimming inside your deepest being

Your heavy pumping heat
My legs now dangling out of your pulmonary noodle
I've become miniscule in this glorious museum
That keeps you alive
Forgive my exit now, my darling,
This time in your heart has changed me
You are the force which wobbles this reckoning world
This I realize

        Miraculously sliding up
        Your superior vena cava

*Matthew Caliri
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Susan Avatar
April 12, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Congrats on your win!
Mannan Avatar
April 12, 2011 at 6:19 AM
Many warmest congrats Matt for this superb write.
Brown Avatar
April 12, 2011 at 5:31 AM
Congratulations on your win Matt in Nikko's "Anagram" contest. Love, Carol
Magness Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 8:50 PM
A lesson in the anatomy of the heart with a little Saturday night live twist!!! Congratulations on your 3rd place victory. Brian
Kendrick Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Congratulations on your win..Sara
Dietrich Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 3:19 PM
This is very unusual, Matt and most interesting. Congratulations!
Sweetheart Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Congrats Matt on your terrific win in Nikko's great contest luv .. a write so special.. enjoy your top spot with luv..
Richards Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 1:14 PM
Whew....this one almost reaches the boiling point!! A clever use of the annagram of your name....Whoa !! Congratulations, Matt !
K. Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 11:12 AM
What can say Matt but this was one super witty & hearty write! I was smiling all throughout this amazing poem! Very clever use of words here and romantic in its own way ;)-- way to go and Super congrats to you!! :)
Mehta Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Congratulations on the third place win in the contest of nikko, Matt
Mehta Avatar
April 11, 2011 at 10:53 AM
Congratulations on the third place win in the contest, Matt
Anderson Avatar
March 16, 2011 at 9:26 AM
OMG dude, you act likeit is a privilege to have a pic of you or on your facebook! You can not be serious! And I thought I was vain!..Yo, you take the cake. I would not dare have entered that contest...it seems you kiss butt letting women always win..surely your "looks" can get you some play! No need helping a woman get some rankings just to get some attention..lol learn from me dude...JA
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