The repolarization of a t wave
an ocean roller over an invisible sand bar, a lull
until a p wave begins its small rise above the isoelectric
the chop of look-at-me qrs’s
not called complexes for nothing
peaks, troughs, weddings, divorces
births transforming more than bodies into mothers
and deaths
underneath the swells
salt churns cold and warm currents
a low t wave stretches into a u
waves in succession
storms of qrs’s surging into t’s
wide and lopsided as sinking freighters
till a pause between series
the ocean a windless lake
no more p’s, no more qrs’s, no more t’s
this is my autobiography:
the story of a wave
and then the next
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2014