When I Think of the Body
Museum of flight.
Midnight metronome.
Movable feast.
Restoration workshop.
Black box theater
and birthing dome.
Genome generator.
Crank and shaft.
Comfort sack.
24/7 foreman
on the beat, grinding
out the graveyard shift.
Minister, muse, mechanized
mannequin. Message
in a bottle.
Mitochondria machine
and marrow maker.
Harmonic singularity.
Sentient suiter
on the make.
A surefire ache.
Tower, bell, and clapper.
Island oasis.
Pantomime and puppeteer.
Pleasure beacon.
Pusher of buttons.
The button itself.
Tina Schumann Tina Schumann is the author of four poetry collections, most recently “Boneyard Heresies” winner of the Moon City Press Book Award, as well as “Praising the Paradox” (Red Hen Press), “Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues,” (Diode Editions), and “As If” winner of the Stephen Dunn Prize. Her poems have appeared since 1999, including Cimarron Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. www.tinaschumann.com.