knit
tender_square
grandma's
grey
needles
are
almost
as
long
my
femur.
ten
millimeters
to
wrap
and
shift
a
thick
cable
of
wine
-stained polyester
off
one
point
and
onto
the
other
.
thirty
stitch
iteration repeated:
every
row
a
mountain
range
,
a
raised,
soft
bump
of
irritated
texture
.
the
football
-sized
skein
depletes
with
my
tugs
and
twists, unravels
from
spheroid
to
loose
line
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from