Magnetic Resonance

 

I am
centered on a level slide
and inserted into whiteness
of magnetic resonance

as around me
coolant pulses …  mimics idling
waiting simmer of a train

now breathe gently … do not move

then a ratchet thump and clank
similar to those in London
loud inside a towered clock

there are minutes into hour
of submission to the battery
charting somewhere imperfection

for I am far from Fibonacci
far from the golden sequence
in a prime da Vinci print

you may move now

and
I am ejected slowly
near proximity to far

enervated into softness
from brash hurley burley
and harsh noises in the air

 

Bonnie Marshall

Art by Greg Dunn
“Cortical Sunburst II”