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2title: Rough gloves
3genre: verse
4
5project:
6 title: Elegies for alternate selves
7 css: elegies
8 order: 16
9 prev:
10 title: Love Song
11 link: lovesong
12 next:
13 title: Ronald McDonald
14 link: ronaldmcdonald
15...
16
17I lost my hands & knit replacement ones \
18from spiders' threads, stronger than steel but soft \
19as lambs' wool. Catching as they do on nails \
20& your collarbone, you don't seem to like \
21their rough warm presence on your [cheek or thigh][]. \
22I've asked you if you minded, you've said no \
23(your face a table laid with burnt meat, bread \
24so stale it could [break a hand][]). Remember \
25your senile mother's face above that table? \
26I'd say she got the meaning of that look. \
27You'd rather not be touched by these rough gloves, \
28the only way I have to knit a love \
29against whatever winters we may enter \
30like a silkworm in a spider's blackened [maw][].
31
32[cheek or thigh]: feedingtheraven.html
33[break a hand]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html
34[maw]: serengeti.html