Hi Sally,
Delightful! Isn't it great to play a metaphor like this! I know so very
little about needlework but I'm enjoying linking the activity to the idea of
going for a drive. I don't know about the phrase "pin this on the net" but I
assume the net's the little circle that's held in one hand while the
needle's held, and pushed through it, by the other...
"We haberdash the miles..." is amazing! Two mentions of "button" - are you
OK with that? I read the last one more significance than the first (but the
first has a lot going for it as well - it seems such an accurate description
of the gleam and colours of car paintwork on a sunny weekend afternoon).
Thanks for the read!
Bob
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: new: Going for a spin
>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:48:07 +0100
>
>Going for a spin
>
>(a silly season poem)
>
>This untiring seamstress road
>stitches meadows, sky to sky.
>We in button-coloured cars
>needling up to speed, zip by.
>
>Hemmed in by embroidered trees,
>ribboning through Queen Anne's Lace,
>where the hoop around the hills
>holds velvet tapestries in place.
>
>A tape is playing in the car
>as we haberdash the miles.
>I'll cut and pin this on the net,
>notions to buttonhole your smiles
>
>
>Sally Evans
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