Diagnosis
Wednesday morning
          I am lacking some vital element
          a nameless mineral which
by its absence
         leaves me weak
                      blue-white
        like the underside of some frogs
        like a frog in fluorescent lighting
only I am unnatural in any light

Analysis
Monday afternoon
Through a powerful lens I am
nothing
               but squiggles and blotches
                                 landscape

This man's device has shown him
tiny vacancies in my life-blood
 -consistency-
         inside every honeybee cell
each in the shape
                               of a microscopic
                                                             heart

(Nov 7, 2001)