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| 2 | title: Rough gloves | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: roughgloves | ||
| 6 | toc: "Rough gloves" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 16 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: Love Song | ||
| 14 | link: lovesong | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: Ronald McDonald | ||
| 17 | link: ronaldmcdonald | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | I lost my hands & knit replacement ones | ||
| 21 | | from [spiders' threads][], stronger than steel but soft | ||
| 22 | | as lambs' wool. Catching as they do on nails | ||
| 23 | | & your collarbone, you don't seem to like | ||
| 24 | | their rough warm presence on your [cheek or thigh][]. | ||
| 25 | | I've asked you if you minded, you've said no | ||
| 26 | | (your face a table laid with burnt meat, bread | ||
| 27 | | so stale it could [break a hand][]). Remember | ||
| 28 | | your senile mother's face above that table? | ||
| 29 | | I'd say she got the meaning of that look. | ||
| 30 | | You'd rather not be touched by these rough gloves, | ||
| 31 | | the only way I have to knit a love | ||
| 32 | | against whatever winters we may enter | ||
| 33 | | like a silkworm in a spider's blackened [maw][]. | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | [cheek or thigh]: feedingtheraven.html | ||
| 36 | [break a hand]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html | ||
| 37 | [maw]: serengeti.html | ||
| 38 | [spiders' threads]: poetry-time.html | ||