why don’t we take up quilting?
the question has been asked:
why don’t we take up quilting?
and one possible answer is
we really should
the benefits are many
the sewing machine’s smooth
clicketyclick
warms a winter night
clicketyclick
tapping the foot pedal
laying down rhythmic stitches
slow like a slow dance
pedal to the metal on the straightaways
zooming like a threaded V-8
we could make murals
fabricate geometries of
frost or cheesecake or full, voluptuous ripe melons
with little triangles cut
from the legs of well worn blue jeans
(who knows what went on in there)
not that denim or melons gotta be blue
but you would get the idea
and want to reach for it
like bearded mountain grandmas
we would quilt fervently, quaintily, and manlily
quilt unto the cows, quilt until they come home
when the moon goes down for good and
the sun eclipses itself
why don’t we take up quilting?
