Strong Hands 12/25/13
My father has strong hands,
hands that
Build, setting threaded finger-tips to tools
that drill and level making good increases
of toil, soil, bolts and wooden pieces,
that conjure, gird, and hem with metal rules,
that Point to points on maps with labeled lakes
established in his mind but by his aim,
that Work at keyboard keys almost the same
creating quick, sure-fingered things he makes,
that Fold with equal readiness to say
his thanks to He who gives good things and pray,
that Falter,
testifying they are truly hands
and better for it, by it proving them a man's.
My father has strong hands,
hands that
Build, setting threaded finger-tips to tools
that drill and level making good increases
of toil, soil, bolts and wooden pieces,
that conjure, gird, and hem with metal rules,
that Point to points on maps with labeled lakes
established in his mind but by his aim,
that Work at keyboard keys almost the same
creating quick, sure-fingered things he makes,
that Fold with equal readiness to say
his thanks to He who gives good things and pray,
that Falter,
testifying they are truly hands
and better for it, by it proving them a man's.
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