what the hands know
she sits and stares
her palms curling skyward
against her thighs
two weathered coracles
adrift, and filled with rain
disconsolate
she fillets a fishbone sky
into quadrants
the way they divided
her cancer into stages
barn swallows
scissor through thick air
until a cloud
falls through her fingers
in an epiphany
Welcome to this archive of my published poetry, photography and art. Thank you for allowing me to share my creative passions with you, and for taking the time to visit. Please be kind, and do not copy any of the content on this site without permission and attribution. All rights reserved © Debbie Strange. I unfold my origami self / and swim into a lake of fire / washing my hair in ashes / the crane-legged words / of a thousand burning poems.
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Friday, August 12, 2016
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