Amen fingers

Poem by Dana Smith

‘Nothing is wasted. Ever. With these bits I will make things.’ | Photo: by Tracey Parish on Unsplash

Today I bless the fingers
of the woman who uses yellow thread
to mend a hole in my red sweater.

She reads the need of a minute daisy
for my light-deprived brain
in the dead of December.

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