On Watching My Mother Knit

Ryan Robson-Bluer

Oxter she called it, that space

between her chest and bicep, nooked-

out for me. Her elbow rocked, her fingers

tight at the working yarn as a pink ball

bumped its way across the floor, stirred

by its undoing.

 

                  As it leaves the ground,

rebuilding itself in her fingers,

caught like a fledgling from the air,

her hands come together in worship,

neatening me into a scarf.

  • Author: Ryan Robson-Bluer (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 24th, 2023 04:52
  • Category: Family
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  • User favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek.
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Comments1

  • L. B. Mek

    'her hands come together in worship'
    Brilliant!
    (I bow to your superior talent, dear Poet
    thank you!)



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