hands there is much to say about your hands
larger than mine and more graceful
curling like fluid beings made
partly
of the air around them
you've done something
to the skin to make it tough
but smooth and silken despite
your techniques, they have life in them
and
feeling,
sense
of intangible
I suspect they also
have death in them
if you choose, they would kill for you
15 October
1998
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