In and out, behind ,across
The Formal gesture binds the cloth
the stitchery’s a surgeon’s rhyme
a Chinese stamp, a pantomime
of print. Then Spoor. The trail of red
Scabs rise, stigmata from the thread
a cotton chronicle congealed
a histogram of welts and weals
The woman plies her ancient art
Her needle sutures as it darts
scoring, scripting,scarring,stitching
the invisible mending of the heart