My mother had a black Singer
sewing machine when I was very young.
It chugged along, making straight seams
like a stationary train engine spitting out track
or if I squinted just right I felt like I was
riding in a car, looking out the back window,
watching telephone wires swoop away
pole to pole along the shoulder of the road.
Once, entranced by the way it pumped,
I reached my finger up to touch
the thin bright shaft,
the part I loved best,
and now I can’t look
a needle in the eye
without thinking of that thread
still connecting us.
:: Joseph Green, in Crab Creek Review
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