Hi Frank,

Wow, another gruesomely good poem! I have a difficult time adjusting
between the 1st and 2nd stanzas though, it's very abrubt, but perhaps that
is intentional as the rest of the poem flows along without a hitch. I do
wonder if this might be two poems, the first stanza one and the rest
another. Also, some of the lines seem a little long, but again, that's
just me. All in all, well done this and I enjoyed the read.

CW, Mary :O)

--- Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think about hands a lot
> mine are soft and have a great capacity
> for delicacy I'm told
> in some ways it may be true
> that I see aspects of the world through touch
> through fingertips with eyes closed
> so much can be revealed
> a tasting of textures and response to pressure
> rough and smooth     hot and cold
> wet and dry     soft and hard
> making intimacy a living thing that is physically real
> while shaping mental images and sensations
> that become response triggers and pathways
> to satisfaction and realisation
>
> I think about hands a lot
> with horror at the creeping disturbance of skin
> by recurrence of watery pustules rising like bubbling mud
> over two days to burst and form dead slough patches
> painful and bleeding cracked ugliness
> unfit either to touch or be touched
> a kind of pre-leprosy unclean     unclean
> spreading from digit to digit
> causing shy unwillingness to explore or to feel
> the textureless shame of a sickness of the extremities
> hidden only by skillful furtiveness
>
> I have been watching the small finger of my right hand
> a lot lately
> there are small watery pustules rising
> some skin has been shed and a painful crack
> has opened up along the line of the first joint
>
> in my kitchen I have a sharpened knife
> I have been watching it a lot
> lately
>
> ~
>
> Frank
>
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>
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Maryann Hazen-Stearns
"Under The Limbo Stick"
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