Sunday, July 10, 2022

Our Hands Were Once Webbed

Like ribs 

of a broken umbrella


fingers are

just bone dressed


with a bite

of flesh, cold in


their independence

until hand finds 


hand, those negative

spaces filled, 


the always-wanting 

comforted.


-Valerie Nieman

(Originally published in Juxtaprose)


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