Hand
Tendrils from a stump
Veiny bulb and textured
like a turtle shell
but soft and sinewy
Blood-white bone
Hardened vine husk
Sanguine plasma tube between
the knobs of joints
Single-axis shoots
Sickly speckled flesh
Coarse pads and river tendons
and crescent-shaped barbs
Protrusions from the final plane
Obscure soft fuzz mounting
the leather of the artifice
the tool that is a looking glass