Hearty Hands

HEARTY HANDS

Hands

Long fingers

Thin fingernails

Long fingernails

Slight or missing pieces

and parts

Wide palms - strong

Dinted and bulky

Made of history

Made of making

Preserved by the music

Courageous in the gardens filthy splendour

Hands

Sweet, small, tiny and new

Curled around columns attached to the makers

Searching for whole love

And the needy comfort of home

Soft hands and dancing beauties

Grown hands, sturdy and there and open

Cracked pathways, soft maps from before

Lovely advertisement hands or…

Quirky little different ones

With personality.

Hands with red rivers of life underneath

Veins that want to remember and be more...

Grown hands

or absolutely no hands at all

Replacement hands that didn’t replace anything as important as

heart hands.

Heart hands

inside you

with you

from everyone who loves

Like a million feathered wings

Made of fingers and palms and ruby red rivers

Like the Claddagh’s

Made a million wins

That money couldn’t buy.

Heart hands

Always there

With rooms

for new homes.

Heart hands 

Are your hands 

Are beautiful hands 

Important hands 

in love hands 

in more hands than one.