That heavenly touch (prayer group) ...

{Source images: Brigitte Hamadey (guilty feet) & Julie Pepin (ice-sheet hand)}

Now in a circle, singing hymns – linked,

                                                                   palm on 

                                                          sweaty palm – I think:

                                     Every man has 

                  touched his lowly

hanging parts, with either hand;

every woman has pressed upon her

                 softly tender, pink and hidden lips.

                                        Now in a circle, 

              singing hymns – linked,

                                                       palm on sweaty palm – I think:

God bless hers/and ours, those private

    places of bliss, 

                   that contraband;

                                             God bless 

these hours ordained, wherein

                               her moist palm 

                                                   grazes my 

                                                                     fingertips.