milk hands, bread hands,
slick hands scraping in darkness,
rough hands, bed hands,
his hands getting up inside you,
hands brought in from the darkness, spilling orange juice
all over the kitchen table sudden sunlight
i couldn't wipe away
sticky hands, kids hands
morning hands skimming the skin of someone
you weren't supposed to touch
sick hands, old hands and
i know not these my hands said your grandmother
she doesn't; she is young, she was young?
you are young. this is what you know,
hands and hands hands hands getting at you
knuckle bones and fists and gasping,
grasping hands, taking hands
you have never given these hands
NOT YOUR HANDS