Knitted Family

I was visiting an elderly friend a while ago and became fascinated as she knitted without watching her fingers, and talked. Our conversation wandered through family … ordinary everyday things. It was comfortable and curiously comforting …

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KNITTED FAMILY                                           

sixty-three grandchildren
run between her fingers
as her wool slips on the needles
and her voice twines names
like stitches to be unravelled

stories are the thread
of our conversation
while the blue wool loops
houses, parents, children
into a jacket
knitted through generations

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first published in Green’s Magazine

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The Berry Books are perfect for 3-6 year-olds: Berry the mouse, who lives in a tree, gets into funny situations, and has to find his way out of them.