Thumbprints Poems - Poems about Thumbprints

...A photograph of us tucked into an old paperback. We took the book to Rome long ago. I left it on a bus. Most likely it has been destroyed, by riffling thumbprints. Paper rots, the bus ......Read the rest...

... Oil stains on canvas, thumbprints on the frame, the price dangling from the bottom on a string and paper tag. Sculpture in the corner, penguin eggs in clay, all piled in a ......Read the rest...

...I am small among fields of red flowers. They look toward me and watch as time presses its skeletal fingers into my limbs. Yes, this is my body now: a startling mosaic of death-colored discolora......Read the rest...

...NOTES letters birthday cards bits of who he was my eyes flood as I watch mom guide his hands for thumbprints "my dad-once a man of letters" Written on 06/28/2016......Read the rest...

...In despair, I contemplate ending my miserable disease-ridden life! My body is damaged beyond repair And so intense is the anguish that I can barely bear. I'm a worthless mess helpless , a broken ......Read the rest...

...My goodness, I’ve been handled by the best of people And the worst of people, the purity of my crisp white borders has been eroded by the sweat of wily men. The hem of my petticoats marking ......Read the rest...

...Applying for teacher certification I caused one technician much consternation My fingerprints had simply not registered Again and again the test he administered “Guess you could have had a ca......Read the rest...