V Shank
FINGERSPELL
Acquiring knowledge of sign language is highly recommended for individuals encountering
rapidly advancing hearing loss that may eventually result in complete hearing impairment.
–Hearing Health Associates
If you want to weave silent magic that speaks
you must be limberfingered, must want to make
a mailbox with a love letter waiting
To be a proud bird looking backward
To see in the double cheeseburger held in one hand
some meaning
Index finger wounded, holding still a lemon seed
Four figures, foreheads to floor
The turkey hiding its head
The snake swiveling
The swan stretchnecked, ready to strike
Hold the audience with bone china cups and sugar lumps
Conduct with the smallest baton a single glissando
Gather a pinch of peace
Look up
Three mountain peaks, one foothill
A bactrian camel curled to nip an itch
The hand is a vessel, a voice
This crane caught a frog
That crane waits, ahunt
You must keep your promises
Four figures hide their faces
Observe the family hug for the prodigal son
Nearly an honor
If you can channel a rabbit paused midbite
Three figures yawn and stretch
A beckoning, upside down
Accept that long lost brothers may not meet
And like a finger painter, rapier a tree and leave