runs from knuckle to knuckle
of our most defiant finger:
mine, some two inches long,
I would like to have as a knick-knack,
save for the trouble
of cutting it out and boiling it down.
Bell clapper or door knocker,
or simply a worry bead:
how comfortably
it would nicker and pout
between finger and thumb!
Polished bone;
protuberance, nubble and shaft:
it would be a talisman,
a covenant,
a piece of luck to carry in my pocket
or nestle in my palm.
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