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Her Hands

Matthew Guzman

are curling, bending
into unnatural silhouettes.
The acid eating her joints,
while she sleeps,
as she feels pain turn numb.

In pictures she holds me
high above her head
in a full body laugh;
in pictures she flings
a softball from one hip –

those hands, not as they
are, but as they were.
She doesn’t recognize
herself most days.

Most days it’s the bottle, and
not the one from the baby pictures.
The dark long-necked ones,
the ones that gather together and
jingle like trash bag sleigh bells
on Christmas Eve.

Her hands shake in the morning
as she lights that first cigarette.
I have the photograph in my mind,
one deep breath,
a cloud of grey-blue smoke, and
then the picture disappears.

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