My Hand

(c) 2004 Aire Celeste Norell

My hand clutching her hand against her shoulder protectively my arm—   I feel inside my ribs a school of minnows silvery flashes of fish flipping and flicking their tails against my insides   lead concentrates in that heaviest warmest spot I can't quite locate between my breasts and surrounded by breathing flesh       Phys. Phen. (a review)     physiological phenomena of overwrought emotionality converging into extreme self-sensitivity and confused intellectualization biased by all three urging centers obsessively primed for outside contact and an inarticulate desire for nonsensical self-expression or at least that certain poetic atmosphere