Jake's Flea Market

these two fingers

i asked that you place them
here on your wrist like this

your liver turns
your banquet into blood i said

it ebbs upriver through your arteries 
to your heart   i asked

if you could feel it ebb from your heart
upstream through your veins

you said you could

your heart’s in good health i said

now you say
it’s not that heart you speak of

show me your second heart