Fibu to Tibi
Your Intercondylar
Eminence:
please shield my head;
shoulder the weight.
We hammer,
distal, clandestine.
Without me
your ankles weak,
muscles unattached.
Though if you were truly
chivalrous
you’d stand lateral
rather than medial,
more than supporter,
but protector.
Only I stay for that
impressive femur
ligamented to you,
rugged trochanters,
winking fovea capitis,
magic linea aspera
down shaft
to two smooth condyles
not quite hiding
behind upside-
down patella,
inadequate leaf for
Adam, post-forbidden-fruit
Histology of Neural Tissue
Paradiso: just
Adam and Eve
eating rum-
and-raisin
Häagen-Dazs:
satellite raisins
surrounding bodies,
creamy Schwann
myelinating limbs
Center of Earthly
Delights:
ependymal
sunflower
petal around
central canal,
astrocytes suck
phalluses with
plated tentacles,
oligodendrocytes
sheath, microglial
cells swallow.
Butterfly
Gray body with
pink, purple,
blue spots, white
axons. Great fissure
in front, sulcus
in back. Anterior wings
flap, posterior
ones sense.
Viscera middle
and lateral,
somatic front
and back. Pink
dot controls
skin and muscle,
blue lateral
sympathetic.
Purple patch
visceral, pink
somatic. Cell bodies
fill dorsal roots.
Preganglionic
white rami,
postganglionic gray.
Have some
funiculi, hunt
three-layered net:
soft, spidery, tough,
all at once.
Weatherbeaten Literature 