Panicky Purity
The phantoms of the heart and brain are drugs
From soul and not from science. They are like
Some sort of dreamlike but effective plugs
Created for our therapy. A dyke
Holds back the floods… and heart holds back the brain
And rigid rationality. The mind
Holds back the thought-less heart and helps to drain
Its hormones like a tight-drawn window blind
Cuts back on banging light. Sometimes the two
Get woven with each other, though. The heart
Miscegenates its haunting with the zoo
Provided by philosophers. The part
Of mind pretends to segregate its seeds
From feelings, thinking it can stop stampedes.