Adjoining hearts do two things
in succession.
First, there is the swelling
of the chest.
The hearts grow wide,
and nerves fire in all directions.
The arteries dance,
and the breathing deepens.
One calls out to the other
though the throat is coiled tight.
Across the ether,
This fragile call propagates as light.
Then, they meet as familiars
in the night, sepulchered
by darkness,
receding forever from each other.
For, their lights grow
Disproportionate to all the others,
and must be sequestered
unless they be discovered.
Hearts adjoined often coagulate,
Contracting to a critical density,
And implode for size of them
Or become much too small to see.
