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Your Heart

by David Garner

it may feel broken
or inside out
or twisted around,
inverted

but it is full
like moons and rivers
it has shape
and it knows structure

and has a neighbor
around your neck
a god that dangles
on your skin

you own a full-heart
and not a part-heart

your heart is whole
though it is changing

11/09/2007

Posted on 11/09/2007
Copyright © 2025 David Garner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 11/12/07 at 05:05 PM

This poem grows in my heart each time I read it. It starts slowly, pensively, descriptively and then opens into "moons and rivers". Then the unusual "neighbor". To me this feels as if it is a gift, a poem that accompanies a gift, a heart (of silver? of gold?) that is worn symbolically as a reminder , and given at a turning point in life, a time perhaps when the heart feels "broken" "inside out or twisted around, inverted" a reminder ... of the wholeness of this heart, and of the love given.

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