I lived a fairytale in that hospital, stalking the halls while they had time alone, the linoleum corridors weaving a web as known to me as the veins upon my arms, each pumping blood, I thought, laced with the cancer gene.
Most revealing, however, is opening track If I Were Going, where guilt itself "Holds my arms down / Sits upon my chest / Waves its finger at me every night and day" to the sound of crawling, stagnant guitars and pouring rain.
Looking like jockey on a muddy track, I pumped my weary arm upon crossing the finish line.
The young earl of Northumberland arrived at the cardinal's lodging a day's ride from York: "trembling... with a very faint and soft voice, laying his hand upon his arm", he said, "'My lord..
You can find it on a bowl, or, most strikingly, you can find it tattooed upon your arm, or your thigh, or your side.
In a 1906 collection of his stories, titled "The Four Million," he seizes the reader with this unforgettable opening: "Suppose you should be walking down Broadway after dinner.... Suddenly a hand is laid upon your arm.
One is seated, a tender hand laid upon the arm of her companion who carries a fruit basket, a wry smile creeping across her lips.
As the muscles of the trunk are the most powerful in the body, it seems it's better to use them than to rely upon ephemeral arm strength alone.
That "sign upon your arm and between your eyes" -- what is it?
