Callouses

She makes him think of quantum physics

Heisenberg, to be specific,

and his Uncertainty Principle; that she,

with only her sincereness, can

identify him certainly–

As if her reaching past his palm, fingering

his croix mystique, arriving finally at

the vein of his wrist and

like a nurse, feeling his pulse was

indicative of

her accounting for his entire life,

as if under a lens, determined

its weight and trajectory

as if there was a God

up there. As

if.