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Holding Hands

08-07-2009 at 10:56:30 AM
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Holding Hands

Holding Hands


In Greenwich Village you
see a lot of hand holding.
Men holding women’s hands.
Women holding other women’s hands.
Men holding other men’s hands.
Mothers hold children’s hands.
Brothers hold sisters’ hands.
Fathers hold children’s hands.
Nurses hold patients’ hands.
Yes, you see a lot of hand holding
In Greenwich Village.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.