Divination

She loved
to imagine the
fortune-teller
with her open hands
with her riot of
cracks and stories

She dreamed
of the woman’s hand,
woven together with her own
entering and exiting along estuaries
barefoot watersheds
pausing at the line of her heart
a curving line
generous
delightful

The fortuneteller also possessed
the most dazzling power!
Caressing a hand without haste,
knowing how to pronounce the precise word
the divinity of a thrilling future
but more than palms
the fortuneteller knew how
to rescue her heart