Adam Fieled (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA): "Hand"

Are hands entwined, kissed
infused with such tenderness
that they become ethereal, as
things with sky and moon and
clouds in them, everything that
doesn’t touch the earth etched
into little composite sketches
of Milky Way deliverance?

There was depth between us
of somewhere else where no
image will suffice and in which
concrete particulars are daft as
a twelve-dollar bill. The coffee
only cost us five dollars anyway.
Somewhere else lays down its hand to play.

© Adam Fieled 2009-2025

Hand was originally published as Sky, Moon, Clouds in Otoliths 13 in 2009.