04-12-2013, 07:55 AM
Sorry for the confusion, however that's the definitive impression that I got when reading your poem.
I think it's the lack of explanation mainly, there's no real sense of who the hands etc belong to: be it male. female, adult or child.
Then after looking up the meaning of the word epithelialized in Merriam-Webster and combining that with lines 6-9 of the second stanza it paints the picture of a newborn:
Bracelet rascettes = around the wrist?
Carved from Venus to he Moon. = Had no real idea what this meant: assumed it had something to do with a child's mobile hanging from the ceiling or something. Not having any prior knowledge of palm reading at all, there was no way for me to associate this with the palm.
Epithelialized = the process of becoming covered with or converted to epithelium.
Epithelium = 1) a membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity of an animal body and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body, to produce secretions and excretions, and to function in assimilation
2) a usually thin layer of parenchyma that lines a cavity or tube of a plant [source Merriam-Webster]
Stretched, still-pink, fading. = newborns skin OR maybe the aforementioned epithelium.
Combine these thoughts with the whole third stanza and—to me—that definitely paints the picture of a newborn.
Sorry for the confusion.
I think it's the lack of explanation mainly, there's no real sense of who the hands etc belong to: be it male. female, adult or child.
Then after looking up the meaning of the word epithelialized in Merriam-Webster and combining that with lines 6-9 of the second stanza it paints the picture of a newborn:
Bracelet rascettes = around the wrist?
Carved from Venus to he Moon. = Had no real idea what this meant: assumed it had something to do with a child's mobile hanging from the ceiling or something. Not having any prior knowledge of palm reading at all, there was no way for me to associate this with the palm.
Epithelialized = the process of becoming covered with or converted to epithelium.
Epithelium = 1) a membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity of an animal body and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body, to produce secretions and excretions, and to function in assimilation
2) a usually thin layer of parenchyma that lines a cavity or tube of a plant [source Merriam-Webster]
Stretched, still-pink, fading. = newborns skin OR maybe the aforementioned epithelium.
Combine these thoughts with the whole third stanza and—to me—that definitely paints the picture of a newborn.
Sorry for the confusion.