"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
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