Olive Palms

Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
Published in
1 min readJan 31, 2020
Photo by Andrei Lazarev on Unsplash

An outline,
of yellow edges

broken cuticles
anxieties
chewed nails

where paint used to mask more
than the hand

holding a page
undiscovered
flipping frantic

the motion
peculiar but addictive

driving your focus

into an expression

of uniqueness
beauty

her palm laid flat
as she slid down
a printed photo

her hands hypnotizing

often captured portraits

where the mouth
was masked by hand

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Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
Writer for

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.” ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending