Map Dot Fingerprint Dystrophy

Map Dot Fingerprint Dystrophy

What luck! I have a disease
With the the word “map” in it
And apparently
Large slightly grey outlines
Like continents on a globe
Etched on my cornea

(was it too much
sighseeing?)

Concentric circles
Like a fingerprint
As if
I’d put my finger
On the Atlas
Of my eye

Retinal afterimage
Ghost or optical
Illuson
persistence of vision
Lock and key
A mushroom cloud
Negative
On the eyelid

I also have
I’ve been told
A geographic tongue
Also called topographic

So I bought a little shrine
Of a prcelin doll
In a sardine can
Dressed in a map
Dangling
An airplane
And a tiny globe
To try and settle down.

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