CT Scan of Poet

Hold your breath;  breathe,

Prompts piped through apparatus, sound:

Hold your breath;  breathe,

Expel a Buddha's refrain, wreathe

every head in blue-light surround:

All illumes as if on sparked ground,

Hold your breath;  breathe---

Laura Stickney 2024

notes:

This poem is a rondelet--

a 13th century French poetry form

CT scan-- computed tomography is an

imaging test that detects diseases

image from slideshare.net, K. Mahajan