Isotonic Contraction

Muscles can:

1. retain their tone

and their tension even

as the muscle shortens and

lengthens over and over.

2. appear insoluble

water beading on the surface—

minute riptides

pulled by the immaculate

conception of necessitation.

3.dissapear so willingly.

I’ve found marauders

lost in the cavernous depths

of my hipbones.

3. fourteen times over

and the prod and the poke

and the prick

still result in a gasp

followed immediately

by bouts of hush.

4. move independently.

Try to move your big toe

without the second and third

swiftly pursuing.

Find how God’s a

liar.

5. define any connection

to you. Whether it be

completely independent

of the heat rising in tendrils

from your neutral knees

or whether it is in fact

that obsession.