October #3

To My Mitochondria

I remember painstaking lines and

careful colouring-in 

punctuated by leaning back

in blissful satisfaction to 

admire the result.

I learned their biochemistry

and their physiology

gazed at slides

from microtomes.

I once knew such a lot of things

and now that knowledge

is long gone.

All I can recall from then - 

diagrams in felt-tipped pen.

Michele Brenton