Hand Print at Font de Gaume

New poem

HAND PRINT AT FONT DE GAUME

A hand outlined 
on a wall, 
the first halo 
in recorded history, 
not surrounding 
a pale transfigured 
upturned face, 
but an opened palm, 
the edges blurring 
into the ancient
painted 
colouration 
of hoofs and
animals
running amidst 
the living stone, 

the way our own hands 
held against the light 
trying to see,
tell u…