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A Brief Explanation Of Anatomy

Unfolding flowers, grasping, slipping through the future’s mist

The weights of fear and experience worn on a wrist

 

A touch, smooth yet microscopically rough, transfers words

Like a ****** postcard with postage stamps worn on a wrist

 

A god’s sculpture, a child’s toy, and scientist’s creation, a trinket –

The rust of effort and tears worn on a wrist

 

Wet from lake water, dried on a dock, then wet again by grassy dew,

Friend’s woven strings warmed by the sun worn on a wrist

 

Like museum displays, filaments suspended through champagne and handshakes

Everlasting elegance worn on a wrist

 

Twisting and folding, the doorways to gentle kindness and flinching pain

Choices and reactions worn on a wrist

 

Strings that pull with fist’s enclosure, blue laces act as highways beneath glazed skin

Flip over hands to a weak exposure worn on a wrist

 

Windows open on a Wednesday, a gaze across the room

27 bodies rising and falling

A look left – a look down – hair cascading:

Secrets and apologies worn on my wrist.

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Jun 26, 2010
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Don't worry, I'm not a cutter. I just find the delicacy and machinery of a wrist to be quite amazing. I wrote this poem for a school English assignment.

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