APART

APART

poets, dancers, playwrites,
novelists, medics, priests philosophers, physicists,
biologists, anthropologists
dead in
     no man’s land
not holding hands
cream of the crop

not
holding
shaking hands

some
have no nothing
some just
no hands

hard to
write, make
sign or
signal

hands for holding, touching,
loving, grasping

apart
from
all this

greedy for life