In The Palm of Your Hand

In The Palm of Your Hand

You want a reading of the life line in the palm of your hand
I hold your hands so that I can see the destiny in one
and what you have chosen in the other.
The headline is deep, past knowledge leaves an imprint.
The heart line cuts across your hand, foolish with a knapsack,
traveling the world in a circle of bad choices.
I bend to read, and we are knee to knee, our hair touching,
our eyes searching for the route of least resistance
through this maze of fine lines and detours.
I see skepticism floating in the base of your thumb
and fear in the old scars of a knife wound.
There is creativity in the long curve of your fingers,
but you are impatient and demand to know,
if I can see money, which is the whole point of this reading.
Instead I see love falter in a forked measure of line.
as you stalk off angry through an open room of treasure,
a blind man fumbling for a gold mine.

Reviews

[Ed Hart]

I don't know why I thought just because I emailed my palm print to you this was going to be a private reading. That business about the hair touching didn't throw me off because I stopped on the highway at one of those signs and some old gypsy gave me exactly the same reading. Just want you to know I'm suing!

[W.k.kortas]

There is life and Life, and there are many ways to hold things--and to scatter them into the winds. There are so many lessons here, all told in less than twenty lines. Now there is an art that puts simple palmistry to shame.

[Nautili]

I love this. Very creative way to show a relationship's demise. I love the line where you read the forked line in the palm-he had a choice to make and he chose the pursuit of money over love. True, he did not get the read he was looking for, but what he needed was there all along.

[Donald Meikle]

How long does one practise to be able to speak so clearly with one's tongue in such a cheek? No I didn't mispel it

[harmattan]

Wow!
This goes in the collection alongside The Road Least Taken.
How often do people fail to reach their potential because of false readings, or erroneous interpretations.
What a loser, and so near to success!

[deeps]

Wow! This is just so wonderful and amazing. I like this write alot.

[Emily B]

you are one of my very favorite poets . . . this piece if just one example of many for that