Anatomy student

I come before you in my bare bones
you see right through me

Metatarsals click on floorboards
your thumb tracks my zygomatic arch

one of my better features
You are a student of anatomy

and you fondle condyles
probe cranial nerve foramina

You seek out the lesser trochanter
the supra-spinous fossa

ball and socket hinge joints glide
as I am folded into your arms

Yesterday you held a preserved
human heart in your hands

I have left my beating heart
somewhere in your vicinity
Do with it what you will