TALK TO YOUR TOES
Well, you talk to your animals all the time
(I call it “faunacation.), and sometimes to
your plants and flowers when no one’s around.
So talk to your toes and be surprised at their
wiggly reply, and other appendages:
the fingers, for instance, ten springs of response.
Send a salute to your spine, the schooner’s mast.
Ask each axodendritic synapse its secret in
keeping all those neurons in constant contact.
Then follow one slow, deep breath
of inhalation/exhalation, and thank the pipes
and pulleys responsible for that continuous
voyage all your life long, even when you’re
asleep, without once letting you down.
Oh wondrous, wondrous body,
communicative network par excellence
where no one’s ever put on hold.
June 10, 2003
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