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Ultrasound by A.M. Hurley

I hesitate to even attempt to mention hearts

they have been stolen by poets and advertisers alike

by the shape we have given them quite unlike the shape they are

but I will

mention them

mention my encounter with my own

I saw it on the screen

as many expectant parents see one not their own

and yet their own

that is how it felt

to see the main workhorse of my being

so diligently enabling my everything