Touch
These are
the roots
of the hands:
the wrinkled
places, the
willingness.
We live by clean water
in the ways
we can.
We live only
in days.
Leaves of
the trees
change hands
from time to
time.
They embrace
us
in every
kind of rhythm.
Hands simply
follow
because they
have
only presence
to do.
The ache of
the hands
tells the work
we have done.
Fingers of
the hand
are the first
to clutch round stones
the stubs of yellow
pencils,
a funeral radish plucked
with no particular reason
from the
relish tray.
Hands remain
even in death.
They sit
there
poised,
folded in
silence
waiting for the next
instruction.
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