Human Sacrum, a Poem by NAO Student

A beautiful poem by National Academy of Osteopathy student, Dr Chris Vincent, MBBS (October 19, 2015, Toronto, Canada). Dr Vincent aside from being a physician is also a distinguished artist.

Human Sacrum

A Poem

 

Cobra Head.

A hockey helmet grill.

The sacred shield of the pelvis,

dressed up in a costume

with a gleaming cape

of lumbosacral fascia

and rabbit ears

of erector spinae.

An eight-eyed moth

beating its ilium wings,

moving and still at the same time.

Rami of sacral nerves

enter the foramina

like salmon

swimming upstream.

A large strong bone

shaped

like an inverted triangle

tearing the body into  two lower limbs.

A shiny rock dividing a flowing river.

The keystone

of the pelvic girdle

infused with healing energy

from the touch of

the osteopath.

A bone rocket

blasting off into space,

towards the dome of the diaphragm

spewing thick opaque smoke

of ligaments and tendons

billowing in all directions.

The vertebral hat wearing Mayor

of pelvis-town,

playing pied-piper to the spinal bones,

leading them south

away from the skull,

with loud music

blasting

from his coccyx-trumpet,

as he performed a dance

of nutation and counternutation.

Blurred image of a regal lion

with a flowing mane of iliacus,

piriformis and gluteus maximus,

sets the backdrop

of the Klondike stampede,

as muscles and vessels

rush between the moist terrain

of hollow cavities,  organs

and visceral folds

individually

and in groups

to reach the lower abdomen

in search of  gold:

the invisible center of gravity,

elusive

as a Tasmanian tiger.

Time stands still

as the past, present and future

exist together in harmony

inside the hollow

of the sacral canal,

becoming a tangled rope of possibilities

expressed in silence

via the hiatus.

A wild-boar

with sacral ala ears

and jagged jaw of sacral cornua

projecting  bilaterally,

grunts angrily

and snuffs out the imaginary flame

at the apex

bringing the bone to its end point 

abruptly.

A photograph

of a snow owl

taken in a hurry

as it slowly head-banged

to the song,

“I wanna be yours”

by Arctic Monkeys.

Then put in a picture frame

between sacroiliac joints.

A curved bone

adorned with corn rows,

composed of  median,

intermediate and lateral sacral crests.

Galen’s strong bone.

Sacred bone.

Sacrum.

                                                                                              

Written by – Dr. Chris Vincent, MBBS