« on the other hand », she wrote
that’s easy to write
when you’ve got more
than one arm
to your clock
(am I being)
wise
or counter-clock
wise now?
or most probably just
right,
I mean just dead inside
my right arm,
with this heavy limb to extract
from under my pillow and
throw like
tons of feathers
but don’t worry death’s left
five tweeting fingers
with their right to live
and typing fever
tapping on the right
hemisphere
/it’s as if life took a turn,
freeing one half of me while running
to the other side/
(am I plainly
suffering or rather
discovering unused paths
from mind to sheet,
from wrong to right?)
I am.
*** This poem has been written for dVerse Poets Pub; you will have noticed that this week’s theme is « on the other hand », or seeing both sides of the coin. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost an arm, I simply sprained my shoulder almost 2 weeks ago, and therefore have had to find new ways to do things without my right arm.***
Hiroshimem 
it is interesting how that works…my senior year in high school i fell up a set of stairs (yes, up) and tore all the tendons in my wrist…i still had to ake exams and the AP tests were hand written…i had to learn to write…and even paint with my non dominant hand…it was not easy…so i feel for you…smiles…
nice write, cool take on the prompt, i like the word play in wise and clockwise…and hope it heals up soon for you…
thank you Brian! It’s probably easier to heal now, with the possibility to type with the left hand (but it takes so much longer!). I work as a teacher, so I have to find new techniques!
This is so well crafted – I particularly liked the play on wise and clockwise. Great stuff!
Thank you!
First, I wish you well soon.. And having to do everything with just on hand. A true challenge… Wonderful wordplay – and 5 finger tweeting sounds ha 😉
Thank you… I am already doing better, but healing just takes time…
The binary system of the human body, with its 0s on the left side and 1s on the right, weave strangely as the signals cross (the brain « sees » what comes in through the left eye in its right lobe.) The conversation of constrasts is writ with biology. Anyone who’s had to train a less-developed side due to injury (especially stroke victims) find this sort of dim murmuring going on. Like a silent twin waking up. Nice.
Wow, so well said. A dim murmuring… exactly. Thank you.
Get well soon, and just keep the other hand going, really nicely done and some great words and interaction
Thank you!