Soul Fingerprints

Soul Fingerprints By Mark Stucky From the midst of multitudes, elusive, unique fingerprints identify individuals as owners of their surface smudges. Beyond their barely discernable two-dimensions on smooth surfaces, memories of casual causal touches, ethereal fingerprints possess power to unlock phones storing private secrets and to solve whodunit murder mysteries. God’s mysterious, stealthy fingerprints invisibly mark creation and our lives, at the core, below the surface. No ridged whorls outwardly appear, but those uniquely hidden codes identify their covert Owner. Distinguishing fingerprints requires crime labs no longer. My fingerprint unlocks my phone. God’s fingerprint unlocks my heart. (First published as “Fingerprints” in Agape Review, 6 April 2023. See also my poems "The Invention of Love" and "Gloria in Eggshellsis.") (Photo by ar130405 on Pixabay.com.)