Watch the monitor. That small tissue mass
embedded in my right atrium: the
sinoatrial node, functioning as
a pacemaker. I’ll magnify it. See
it quiver like a shaken kidney bean.
And its miniscule tear just under those
filaments. Yes, that’s heartbreak—a slit lean
as an amoeba’s membrane, but it throws
electric impulses out of kilter.
Would prove a killer, but it’s securely
wrapped, tourniquet tight with minute strands clear
as gel. Sympathetic fibers? Surely.
Nanoscale guitar strings. A musician,
she somehow mended her own incision.
Roger Armbrust
July 21, 2007
