The Book of a Hundred Hands

The Hand Painted In

the hand painted in Is said is unhinged can drift off from is not constrained to Though the hand, as if tethered, often stays in place the great painters could aloft each cell where the living shifts into distance while we, the living, devise new methods: You grind down a lightbulb and paint in the hands. This, said the Renaissance, shall, in that required posture, cause them to stutter to flicker to rise on will. The hand is yet one more instance of the incantation of the awkward god of uneven number, of all knuckle, El Greco, my own Elba, and all the in-between that glows in the dark. Arcen -ciel, or carved boat, or matching boats like the blue hands that saints often wear. 51 ...