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Hands on a Hard Body

February 28, 2024
By LucySteward PLATINUM, New York, New York
LucySteward PLATINUM, New York, New York
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Hands on a hard body, that’s what we were

A tangle of broken bones,

souls slowly interwoven into 

something beautiful, a thread, a photograph, maybe

I like to think that we were beautiful

And I don’t like to think about what more we could’ve been

That those hands, strangely soft

might’ve held the ones that belong to me 

Might’ve merged into one 

body

one beating rhythm of possibility

But now we hold nothing

And that thread must’ve frayed because 

I feel our souls

slipping

away from the other as they dance on the brink of strangerdom

And this body

Is empty.


The author's comments:

I was inspired by the illustration on a poster for the documentary film Hands on a Hard Body to describe a relationship that has faded.  


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