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The Quilter
by Arthur Dobrin
The quilter
With Penelope’s patience
Patches and pieces
Hems and binds
By the sun glowing
On the winter pane,
Reclines towards the south
Wall and window green
Maple and pine
Jade and young cane.
Her scraps selected and arranged
She invokes Hestia with the silent
Call of wheat bread baking,
Summons with the sacred eyes
Of Cybele and equatorial sunsets,
Sews our lives by the quilter’s stich.
Grandmother’s flower garden
And rare cathedral windows fill a corner.
Paws of gentle bears sleep beside the chair.
This room is the center of the universe.
The warm cloth coverlet holds
The world together.
From Angles & Chambers by Arthur Dobrin (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1990).