#nasal bones

[whiterabbittaxidermy-blog1]

Fox skull

[milongenous]

help i’m dying i can’t breathe out of my nose

[swasthier-blog]

[weary-hart]

Anatomy Poems #3

“Nasal Bones”

Not every bone of the skeleton is noble Some are forgotten because they lack junction Because with wet eyes we cannot see their action Faces course much deeper than skin Brain is not just housed in skull But here, rostral, mid-dorsal, center stage The wings of the cheek arches frame a long nasal house Picture window cartilage, and basement concrete oral vestibule This is the hardest part of the face to see without flesh Hidden between the teeth and the roof of the mouth We like to think of incisive as being biting Failing to appreciate the long hard plate it pushes caudally And that maxillary bunch of roots holding in the molars Is also a solid base for the layers of nasal complexity to rest Of course you have to have a slope, a form, a function The only bone to be a title and an area and a cavity Nasal itself sounds nasally and without it The collapse of the passageway would cause chaos Air filling a nothingness, so we must appreciate bones Paper plane shaped vomer, and curling ethmoid aside Feel that shape, the strength, the sureness of breath Incisive to Maxillary to Nasal constituents Not all bones can be noble, But every bone has a purpose for kings