Old Man Hands
Old man's hands.
Left hand's purple veins, left ear hearing aid.
Adjusts watch on left wrist, withered tilted thin pale hand long purple spider web veins.
Right hand folds thin watch strap on thin wrist, compressing time flat.
Right hand dusts rice from table edge into middle. Hand brushes forehead
skin.
His left hand, like my father's dying skin, white veins dominate action, feeling
space.
Many pens in pocket. Old down vest warming 60 year old skeleton.
One grain of rice.
One old man waits for his Japanese take-out meal. Carries it with trembling
hands.
Tim Leonard, a Vietnam veteran, is a graduate of the University
of Oregon. A poet, writer and digital photographer, his work has been
published by CREATIVENUE.COM, POETRY SUPERHIGHWAY, STIRRING (V2EI), EBOOKSONTHE.NET,
and JOURNAL E. An article and image on El Morro, N.M., will be published
by KIDS HIGHWAY.COM in December. Mr. Leonard has extensive international
hotel management experience.
Note: Featured
author in December 2000s
E-mail: tmleonard@earthlink.net
Writing interests: Travel, Children, Poetry, Prose
I.D. Theory articles:
"Going North from Santa Fe",
"Bali Creativity",
"Old Man Hands",
"Roof Ball", "Commentary
in December", "Sun
River", "Leaving
Through DIA", "Pawn
Takes Pawn", "Elements
of Surprise and Laughter", "Field",
"Gas
is Cheap"
Digital art: "Cutting Fingers," "Error 404 File Not Found," "Scratch," "Remain in the View," "The Orchestra is in the Pits," "National Poetry Month," "Untitled Means Exactly What It Means,"
"Woman in Thorns," "Royalty Discussing Just Desserts," "Truth Clarity Power Immortality"
Links: Tim's
Website