Heartsong

My heart is
Remarkably portable
Orbital, circling
Your head
On a string

Veins
And ventricles
Bubbling, guzzling
Oh, what a
Marvelous thing!

You take it
Wherever you go,
You know,
You wear it around
Like a ring

And even
Without it,
Impossibly, somehow
I manage to
Smile and sing.