Meaning Is the Manual of the Mind

How do you get your hands on
Us? How can you handle us?
There are gestures; there are signs.

But what is there that amounts
To plunging hands in the soil,
To caressing someone’s skin,

To clutching a door handle,
To fingering a blade’s edge?
How can you search us by touch?

Gestures are informative,
But meanings are your minds’ way
Of handling information.

We feel you pick out our lines,
Roll them between your fingers.