Blood is breathing Fully submerged cells even In denser places like thighs or nails or secret stomach aches Blood is humming us A constant tone accompanying the incessant muscling Pumping us in out, in out, in out, in out, in out, in out The vowel of self Blood is steadying Lunged pendulums in threads of muted currents Ferrying air around and round it's labyrinthian orbit Through the fleshy underside of this Our atmospheric sea Blood is ignited engine here at the core of all creation With your key to our mystery's spark Bursting just beneath the surface Pushing time lapse blooms of newly aired blood outward While inward bound To central brain and each extremity As different as they are all alike One fauna all inhaling All flora's breath Lest we forget Look, this leaf Veins patterned by fractal giving Oxygen you carry now within A cell of blood threaded in All parts of this body we too will grow to give and be Blood is Pulsing vast beyond our vein tips