Amy Elisabeth Olson

spinster fingers

i understand tongues through the eyes
of needles which stitch barely nothing but lip
to other lips. but the pumping - the coming
ups and the going downs - those bones weave
less complete than spinster fingers or closed
fists wet from years of trying to tie without stitches
to be apart but whole - to make things go
in or come out of holes.

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