This hand print on a cave wall is a relic
of a world before time ripened into numbers,
before people recorded names.

The small scrap once attached to someone,
is shaped for work at an ancient task ,
splayed as though to assert its presence.

My hand fits neatly inside the outlined one.
I place it gently as a friendly greeting,
my high five across millennia.


Sharon Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes a poetry critique group and maintains a website (freeprintmusic.com) of her original music compositions for the free use of small, liberal churches.  Her poetry chapbooks, Seasons, Remains, Classifieds, Evensong, and Ghosts, are available via Amazon Books.  Her poems are currently in Poetry Potion and The Raven's Perch.