With the Son Gone
by Tom Harmon


You knit.
Hours ride the yarn
to the click-clack of needles
filling the evening.

I watch
as strands of color
become one, a brilliant scarf
falling at your feet

And muse --
nesting still suits you,
promising to mail the gift
first thing tomorrow.







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