A STORY QUILT
The thread of life
unspools
from the mind of God, joining you
to me and we to all, like thread in my
mother’s hands stitching bits of beauty
into unity
Day by day
she follows lightly penciled marks on
on calico cloth, creating a quilt design
patterned in prism colors of sun-yellow
joy and shadow-blue sorrow, revealing
a life
twice told
Her quilt grows fragile, is cherished
as heirloom in my cedar chest, yet, when
I remove it, hold it, unfold it, her story
transcends today
and lives again
Mary Willette Hughes 