Asunder
I’ve been collecting looms.
Big with levers and ratchets and cranks and
small full of nail heads to hold
the looping folds of string transforming
slow at
the start then
fast to a bit
of cloth.
I could turn this into anything.
I keep never understanding how wrapped warm
I have been and safe in the warp and
weft of the universe until the threads tear
loose and
leave me
torn.
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I love the loom language and line breaks to match. Love the idea of a cosmic loom and the contrast with the man-made looms the speaker is collecting.
Great metaphor poem!
“ I could turn this into anything.” You always have such a good sense of when to throw the breaks on in a poem, let it breathe, and then weave more meaning into it. Really enjoyed this.
Do I mix my metaphors? Very well then, I mix my metaphors.
— Walt Whitman, probably.