Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Prompt #07 Wrong Hands


From www.notwithoutpoetry.wordpress.com:

Wrong Hands

Mike says: I am recently obsessed with magic. Not just any magic. The top shelf stuff. Homer Liwag is an amazing slight of hand artist, and yet he is known for having “the worst hands in magic.” By some bad luck of the genetic draw, they are chronically as dry as the desert. This is one of the reasons I find Homer’s performance so poetic, the striking contrast between the beauty of the movement and his “retired” hands. They seem like the wrong hands…not to mention the fact that when you’re looking for the coins, you are almost always looking at the wrong hand
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His Own Hands


His own future could not be determined
by the strength of his own hands
but rather by the helical ladder 
of which only the strongest can climb




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