Points of Contact

Name one revolution whose inception was unlike a fist. Factions disparate, then tucked together—coiled like a fist. Foreign policies are symbol languages—idiomatic, cryptic. In America, nothing says "We desire peace" like a fist. The heart is a one-man rave in the body's industrial district. Blooddrunk and insomniac, it pumps toward sleep like a fist. Mammogram magic revealed my lover's dense breasts. Behind each nipple I kissed, a soft knot threatened her like a fist. Our universe's yet shattered mysteries fear the astrophysicist. "Damn his galaxies-thick glasses, his mind, relentless, like a fist." "Like a glove"—the young groom exalts his wife's love, its fit. Sounds romantic. (He means sex—her love's grip like a fist.) "An unfocused punch, Kyle, risks a broken hand or wrist." So laden the psyches of men. Father, must I also think like a fist?