This poem was written for the latest mini-challenge from Read Write Poem — write seven poems about the body in the context of October. I chose “hands” for the theme of my first poem. Enjoy.
-Nicole
P.S. If you want to read everything else I wrote for the mini-challenge, click here.
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Maybe if I look a little closer at my hands, I will see
the pens and pencils marching
underneath my fingertips. I can faintly hear their stylus feet
if I study the callous resting on the left side
of my right middle finger. It began enveloping itself in skin
when I was seven, folding itself over in whorl and toughness – and it was birthed Continue reading
