Attached to Every Limb of You

In the distance: see a hand shoot up –
to hail? – surrender? – stretch? – express
a waking dream? – is it a sleepwalker
who thinks he’s Isadora Duncan wafting
creamily through Aberdeen? – an epileptic

reflex? – one of two palms raised in frank
admission of perplexity, despair? –
a gesture made in prayer? – a prep to
give the finger? – or attempt to catch
a hat blown by the wind off hair? – let this

suggest a fraction of the range of what
I dare to think I am prepared for as your
vast uncharted emanating ambiguity
comes sailing into view – interestingly,
mystically attached to every limb of you.


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