This Poem was Submitted By: Molly Johnson On Date: 2002-05-15 00:52:26 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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For Women Whose Hands Are Mirrors

I keep my mother deep  under the skin pressed against the flesh, near the bone.  I hold her, not palm to palm  or finger woven,  but in the folds  of nerve-coated tendon, in tough cuticles, fingernail moons, in thick wrists,  knuckle creases and the meat of my palms. My hands are mother mirrors  at my side  and my touch- a forever echo.

Copyright © May 2002 Molly Johnson


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