Diana/The Wandering Armadillo
if i arch my back, just so
you will hear the gutteral crack
of ribs splaying
and thunder peal
confined to a distant canyon
observe the blood rivulet flow
tinted crimson
from rhodonite glow
did you think of yourself as some indelible mark on my being?
how easily I’ve erased your ochred pigments
from my crumbled cave walls
Lascaux?
indeed no
you were only the sharpest point of the trident
ending some turgid trilogy of torment
so stand back
drop the Finochietto*
little blood, no gore
though you expected more
your surgical precision
met with
phlegmatic derision
*a type of surgical retractor designed to separate ribs in chest surgery. Named after Argentinian surgeon Enrique Finochietto
