one hand clasping
Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, Clasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, plaster, 1853
the sound of one
the sound of one hand clapping
the sound of one hand waving
the sound of one hand writing
the sound of one hand touching
the sound of one hand dipping
into the rushing river
the pool at the edge
glacial and pure
palm cupped in the icy flow
scooping lifting it
to your lips
your parched throat’s
parched silence
the sound of one hand clasping
the hand of another
Devotion