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Heartsblood

Heartsblood

By Cara Siera 

Oh, this is the real thing, all right

The other was thin, like water

Or like a cold fog

This is different.

It’s tangible.

It has thickness, length, breadth, material

It’s yielding but as firm as the flesh of my heart

It’s viscose, like heartsblood

Heartsblood oozes from it, in fact

Giving it life

It is heartsblood.

And heartsblood doesn’t scab over

When you’re wounded

It oozes, creeps on out

Turning blue then black

As it is deprived of vital oxygen

And then you die.

But this is real and

The heartsblood is warm

It courses through me, through you

We share it.

It is ours and we belong to it

It gives us life and love

Because we reciprocate

It takes on shapeless forms

In the night

We grant it this power

Because without it we are nothing.

We drip with heartsblood

We are saturated in it

It is in us and of us

Originally published in the 2011-2012 edition of The Red Mud Review under the pen name Cara Carroll.