Tell me again

"I know people who can tell
The future or the pain of your past
Just by looking at all the lines
In the palms of your hands.
The human hand is a book
Where suffering
Is written in wordless lines.

Tell me again
About the necessity of language."

Page 23, "Knowledge: The Hand of Another"
'The Book of What Remains', Benjamin Alire Saenz


Photo: In Cambodia, a hill outside Phnom Penh