Sunday Whirl
Words: loss, shovel, friends, expected, stop, plum, letters, drift, sweaters, wind, stitches, yam
The Quilt Made by Hand
The Drunker’s Path
The Flower Garden
The Log Cabin
With careful stitches
The needle pierces the fabric of the day
Disappears
Then reappears
The thread drawn taught
Binding events of one’s life
All that is expected and unexpected
She dreams of her garden
In that garden is the prize
The yam, yellow orange
Sweet to taste
Palm Leaf
Aunt Sukey’s Patch
Corn and Beans
Stop check the stitch
The Bethlehem Star
The Lone Star
The Spider Web
As the quilter stitches
Friends appear
Waltz across her work
She calls to them
Writes letters in her stitches
The wind knocks at her door
Wants to come in
And it is this wind
For which she creates the quilt
Protecting all who use it
Job’s Trouble
Job’s Tears
Joseph’s Coat
She works with bits of fabric
Bright colors whirl around her
Yellow, plum, robin’s egg blue
She dreams of
Saw-Tooth
The Ship’s Wheel
The Dusty Miller
As she works
She tells stories
Of days gone bye
Loss and sorrow
Spider Web
Eight Hands Around
Ocean Wave
Her mind drifts
To a day
Of blowing snow
Sweaters pulled close
Lost
Days pass
Rescue comes in the form of shovels
Snow on the Mountain
Snow Star
Snow Angel
Note: In the days before Christmas, my nephew and his family were trapped in their car for almost two days, while traveling to ski in New Mexico. They experienced a Christmas miracle when they were rescued from their cold tomb under four feet of snow. We are very grateful!
*Now this is funny… I missed took the word “yarn”, for “yam”, and found it was so hard to include “yam”… so I shall leave it this way.
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