Grey Hands

Sophia Valera
Jan 12, 2024

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This sky looks like my palms

after I would read the newspaper out in the humidity.

wet words marking my hands

cold-blooded old times tracking

page 46

human performance

just below bulging veins

in my wrist

running down me

a different kind of timekeeper

mile marker

wrinkles are the headline, though

hands are not the leader

longing to be vast

ungrasped like sky

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