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Some usages of 'palm' are ambiguous as to whether the tree or the body part is meant. I suggest checking both posts. Palm (tree).

Wish for breath to warm our palms - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Horizon like a shallot in my palm - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"

Her palms cupped open to the sky - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Soft on that copper palm - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

In the chasm of our black palms - Quenton Baker "[we are]"

Licking purple from your palm - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Whose magnetic palms bring dreams - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

Not high enough to palm the moon - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

A thistle on the palm - Lucie Brock-Broido "The One Thousand Days"

With Charon's coin in palm - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Their palms like a hundred hands of fate - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"

A golem from a palmful of dirt - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

Giving you a palm full of wasps - Kwame Dawes "Purple"

Planting a tree in my palm - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

This space my palms describe - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"

Etched on your own palm - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"

Slip like water from your palms - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Pity sleep in the curve of her palms - Mona Gould "Ballet Moment"

Open your palms to the moon - Linda Gregerson "An Offering"

Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

A shrine in the gap of our palms - Destiny Hemphill "our own names"

Cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

With your palms full of rain - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"

Microbes in the palms of our hands - Patricia Spears Jones "Saturnine"

Braided lines in the palm of my hand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Spin you in my palm to wash out time - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"

Weighing the planet in his palm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Measure the dust in his palm - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"

My hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Four stars spinning in my palm - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"

To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"

Graze my palm on the Pliocene - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

A tomato pulses in her palm - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

From your palm a rift of salt - Adrienne Rich "For This"

A golden nailhead, burning in your palm - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

In the grasp of Time's cold palm - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

the present, a gold rotting in our palms - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

the words dry up in the palm of my hand - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Old stories etched on the lifeline of my father's palm - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Following the path of ants from your palm - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Your palms two puddles of rain - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"

Reads the palm of the sand - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"

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