Sympathetic Magic
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Having been connected
for so many years, I find,
much to my chagrin, we
continue to react upon one
another. The relationship
is long severed, such a thing
should not be possible,
given the physical distance.
I am not unsympathetic, just
bemused by cause-and-effect.
Cleaning the closet I found
several of your shirts, lost,
in the back. I took them apart,
ripped carefully along seam
lines around the shoulders
to make square rags of cotton,
I planned to craft a quilt
at a later date and time, not
some witches ladder. You tore
your rotor cuff that week. I
don’t know what possessed me.
In consideration, I fashioned
a puppet from the plaid cloth,
careful to sew the seams
with small, precise stitches.
23 comments:
Thank you for visiting my blog today and for your kind words. Your post is thought provoking. I love your Quote for the Day. It sure goes with my essay. Blessings, Cricket
I really like this, and the way the ending is stitched together in such a lovely and sensitive way. I can really feel the connection from the relationship, and I like how the quilt and puppet evoke warmth and tender caring.
:)
Cricket's Hearth - My favorite Tom Robbins quote. Thanks for stopping by, glad you found something of value in this magical go round. :)
Clare, thank you. I'm glad you see the positive in the poem, I was afraid people would think I walk around wearing black all the time. :)
The magic of recycling. Just like nature is life.
You put it well.
This is nice! So tender. I love the ending.
anthonynorth- Thanks!
Recycled relationships? *g*
keith - thank you!
Magical poem. The restitching is a lovely thought - nicely done!
great details.
tumblewords- I broke it, I need to fix it. *g*
lissa - thanks!
I planned to craft a quilt at a later date and time, not some witches ladder. You tore your rotor cuff that week. I don’t know what possessed me.
i am intrigued by these lines... so what,, is this insinuating that by cutting or sewing the fabric you caused the torn rotator cuff... its probably just me.....
that ending is good. i liked the stitches---that is this poem.
I like the stitching imagery too.
Paisley - It wasn't I that tore the rotor cuff, just the shirt. I am the mender, the puppetmaker. So much for the planned quilt... Other things become more important. :)
No, it's not you.
gautami & carla - Thanks!
Have the gnomes taken you captive? I haven't seen you for ages. :)
Gabriele, not the gnomes, the muse. He's demanding BIC. *g* My private writer's group is doing NaNo February, so I'm actually trying to accomplish something. Amazing, I know...
Hehe, that way you missed a plotbunny I hid in my last Aelius Rufus Visits the Future post. :)
Said bunny would have had to have been 6 feet tale for me to notice. *sigh*
And I'll thank you to keep your plot bunnies on YOUR side of the water. I can't afford to house and feed any more!
Then kick some of the gnomes out. :)
Gabriele - Okay, I gave some gnomes plane tickets to Germany...
*g*
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