A Hand<\/b>
\nby Jane Hirshfield<\/i><\/p>\n
A hand is not four fingers and a thumb.<\/p>\n
Nor is it palm and knuckles,
\nnot ligaments or the fat’s yellow pillow,
\nnot tendons, star of the wristbone, meander of veins.<\/p>\n
A hand is not the thick thatch of its lines
\nwith their infinite dramas,
\nnor what it has written,
\nnot on the page,
\nnot on the ecstatic body.<\/p>\n
Nor is the hand its meadows of holding, of shaping\u2014
\nnot sponge of rising yeast-bread,
\nnot rotor pin’s smoothness,
\nnot ink.<\/p>\n
The maple’s green hands do not cup
\nthe proliferant rain.
\nWhat empties itself falls into the place that is open.<\/p>\n
A hand turned upward holds only a single, transparent question.<\/p>\n
Unanswerable, humming like bees, it rises, swarms, departs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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