They say now that a healthy heartbeat is always irregular, a changing pattern of single events whose fragile rhythm affirms response to our moments of knowledge.
I could compute the universal sum of heartbeats but to know them as I knew our unborn children's their mountains and valleys on the ultrasound screen and pulsing within, both me and other.
It's hard to acknowledge your presence and share though I've felt your heart as close as my own though you set my pace and the climate I live with; sky-clearer today, changeable as Mercury who is also Hermes, god of movement eloquent, tricky, patron of commerce and under an older aspect, three times the greatest Hermes Trismegistos, the poet's god.