April 3, 2020

Sewing Machine

I need a sewing machine. I did not take
home economics in high school. Too
busy with my head in a book, I guess,
or worried that it would look like a
"blow-off class" on my transcript.

So I blew off the blow-off class, and
now I want to make lovely things – I
want to make things lovely – and I
can't. I don't know how. I had the
chance to learn, and I blew it.

I hope it's not too late. Maybe I can
pick one up secondhand, and find an
old instruction manual to go with it.
I find old instruction manuals very
helpful these days, for making things

Lovely, and whole. Maybe I can learn
to mend and to make amends. Maybe
I can stitch together a patchwork sail
to catch some of the old winds I blew
off, and some wholly lovely new ones.