Art - By Harry Wareham

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The Philosophy Takeaway Issue 47 'Open Topic'

Art - Harry Wareham

This weeks artist was Harry Wareham: http://subpots.wordpress.com/

The Philosophy Takeaway Issue 46 'Open Topic'

Art - By Harry Wareham

 This weeks artist was Harry Wareham:
http://subpots.wordpress.com/

Art - By Harry Wareham

This weeks artist was Harry Wareham


The Philosophy Takeaway 'Identity' Issue 37

Art - By Harry Wareham

By - Harry Wareham

The Philosophy Takeaway 'Gender' Issue 26

Art - By Harry Wareham

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                                  Philosophical Tangents: Class War!

 

Hands

 

Hands (plural),

my hands (also plural);

there’s two of them:

extensions from the same one trunk,

but also not hands,

also skin, hair

and bones I can’t see,

and blood I infer

from the swollen veins

of a languid summer tryst.

Hands but also tools

to tie, press, grasp, hold;

moving tools; climbing tools;

tools to turn things over

and make sense.

Hands but symbols also:

semaphores for the deaf,

a thumbs up and a clap.

Instruments for appreciative sounds,

together,

for anger slapped down

on a hard wood table.

 

Hands but also roots

for digging into the world;

lines of communication

for my sense, perception.

Digits on which I count

1, 2, 3, 4…

Palms on which I rest the coconut.

Hands but also evidence

of time:

of ageing, eating, that last cigarette

lingers on the fingers

Hands but also biographies:

the one broken page book of our lives;

an afterthought of DNA.

We say hands

but know the language fails us

and leaves us wanting

for imprecision,

so when I take your hand in mine

know, it makes so much more

than simply hands.

Simon Leake

Hands by Harry Wareham