Roadmap

Looking down at my own hands,
I see instead my mother’s;
wrinkled and careworn,
freckled with age and sun,
blue veins etched against scrawny tendons.

Life’s roadmap carved beneath the skin.

Ah, little Mother, how unexpectedly sweet
to bear so potent a reminder
of you!

This lovely image of four generations of hands,

can be found in its original large size at the
WordPress.com site of Chris McWilliams.

Here is the link: