old man's hands

Old man’s hands.
Left hand’s purple veins, left ear hearing aid.

Adjusts watch on left wrist, withered tilted thin pale hand long purple spider web veins.
Right hand folds thin watch strap on thin wrist, compressing time flat.
Right hand dusts rice from table edge into middle. Hand brushes forehead skin.

His left hand, like my father’s dying skin, white veins dominate action, feeling space.
Many pens in pocket. Old down vest warming 60 year old skeleton.

One old man waits for his Japanese take-out meal. Carries it, trembling hands.
One grain of rice.