Thursday 3 February 2011

old hands

liver spotted skin and jagged joints, responding slow to will, yet sometimes when the mind’s mislaid, remembering the shape of former skill


T#9

2 comments:

  1. That is melancholically beautiful. It brings to mind a conversation Gran and I had (while sitting in the pub naturally) that although we think it is our eyes which see the most in our lives our hands see more and sub-consciously than even our eyes, which when you think of all our hands do makes alot of sense.

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  2. Thank you. I was thinking about the way that people can still knit, for example, (or make rugs) even when their thinking is muddled their hands remember what to do.

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