<li>carries note from father (complicated relationship) with gaelic blessing “may the road rise up to meet you”</li>
<li>linguist talks about translation, offers original</li>
<li>starts focusing on last line “may god hold you in the palm of his hand”<ul>
<li>CF Isaiah 49:16 - “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands”</li>
<li>just an obsession with hands all around</li>
<li>A hand in your making, a bird in the hand, hands forced, hand in hand, blood on your hands, washing one’s hands of the matter</li>
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<li>First one to go</li>
<li>One night, outside the clearing where the tower is, meets clone</li>
<li>Clone guides her hand into the soil where it takes root, muscles loosened, unwound, thus unbound began to lengthen, strengthen, arch skyward, seeking stars.</li>