Duemer's Valentine

I think maybe what the poet’s
getting at has more to do
with the larynx sometimes

than the heart at least
as far as I’ve been able to tell
when I assume the position

not to say the blue mantle
of my Irish grandfather
a great sentimentalist and

talented sensualist with nine
children to my one
I think there are always at least two

or more worlds at any given point
all undergoing mitosis in the true
poet’s heart and throat.