ninety five years' patchwork fingers
slowly stitch fabric scraps saved for
time make cold nights warm both sides
tatted fingers sore and yarn with a
little help from Beulah her daughter my
father's mother geometric patterns color
and textures family unknown to see easy
chair now Granny rocks hands clasped
in lap still darker than gray twenty
three years i've loved her this way
one constant force never to change
fifth generation tugs her shoe now as
Granny smiles
label:
October 1981