Palm Reading
Hand in hand, hand
over doting hand,
four hands, two
in a hand, two
handed. This is how
we landed here, how
interdigitating
digits cling, fingers sing
in signs. Soft spoken,
soft palms, soft, unbroken
lines creasing across
soft palms, soft touches
of fingers across the back
of a hand. Know the back
of your hand, I know
your hands. I know how
strong fingers linger, between
two palms, pressed, seen
pressing, one over
the other,
line by line,
reading.
A. Damon Cutter is an ex-pat new Canadian writer and biologist living in Toronto. He is author of the book Evolving Tomorrow, and his poems have appeared previously in the Literary Review of Canada and Rowayat.