quiet as a weaned child in its mother’s arms –
like an infant is my soul.
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My mother
at her Singer sewing machine,
late night,
beneath
a menagerie of mythology
the constellations endure,
sewing butterfly nets
out of old
light-gowns of moon
and ghostly
veils
of final sleep,
or so it seemed:
but the child I was
remembered the piece goods bag
saying something of Jesus
and everlasting life
in red letters;
the difficult
weave of love
binding
the webs
of all those seasons;
the way the bright mesh
wound through her
pale hands
spinning
threads into white-silver
she could not
from her own unraveling.
Yet, she became
for a time,
a solitary magnificence
stitching netting
into dreams
while the shushing
song of the Singer
kept lulling me
into nodding
into nodding
prayers
and light-
filled fields,
and light-
filled fields,
my net luminous--
swaying just above--
with a want so loud
I was sure they would hear
and flutter up
to circle
the tiny pulsing
of the hiding stars,
or so I prayed,
when I used
to pray
best.
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