By Stephanie L. Harper
—An In-titled Poem1
…or, rather, there are no
lesions there, unlike in
other, special areas
(a.k.a., the temporal or
parietal lobes), so this
particular note isn’t
meant to be an insult…
Still, the MRI result’s
essential premise misses
the entire point about
his brain: thus, it’s not
a small slap to his persona,
nor to mine… Isn’t it
much more than passable
to claim the real import
is lost to the meta-stases
cancer buries beneath
some lame, impenetrable
barrier to keep its cruelest
phases in a mausoleum?
So, let me, at least, issue
to the report this one
correction: because he is—
I mean, all his parts are—
remarkable in-carnate!
Oh, but he enamors me!
He completes me! He is—
it’s simple, I’ll spell it—
P – E – R – P – H – E – C – T !
1 The In-titled Poem, an original poetry form invented by Stephanie L. Harper, is composed exclusively of the letters appearing in its title, with no letter occurring within any single word in the poem more times than it does in its title.