Heart Line
When palmistry espies
a curved heart line
pointing to the index finger,
it says romantic, psychic, easily hurt.
So tell me something
I don’t know. Like,
what if little red flowers
grew along the heart line
and a big bad wolf came along
and ate them
and then Grandma arrived
babuschka on her head
machete in her hand
and she chased the big bad wolf
back into the forest
said, “Whew, glad that’s over,”
and those little flower stems left
through the heart line
that we recognize as scars—
well, that’s the price
of doing business
if you’re romantic, psychic,
easily hurt.
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