deciphering the speed of sound, as the strings of her own heart hum its melody.

‘sound’ taken from 4:12 of deuteronomy.

someone,

somewhere

in the life of

robert redford

has quite

a thing

for yarn

these days.

perhaps it is

something new

as one of

the latest

sundance catalogs

that greeted

my mailbox

(i never buy,

but i love to look)

was full of

yarny pics.

i wonder

who it is

influencing

him in this way.

a grandma?

a daughter?

an uncle?

a close friend?

or maybe,

just maybe,

he has joined the ranks

of the many actors

who have taken

to the sticks themselves.

‘ranks’ taken from 30:27 in proverbs.

after all the more complicated stitches i’ve been jumping through the hoops of lately.

huge thanks to the gals at in the loop for finding me just the right yarn

to cast on for the planche vest from the newest issue of ik (summer 2012).

‘peaceful’ taken from 32:18 of isaiah.

the latest issue of Knitscene  magazine (Summer 2012).

king in this room.

it swipes at every

wisp of gloom;

to freeze

the ember’s clout,

drown the coals

of doubt.

it escorts

the darkness out;

as hope is king

in this room.

‘hope’ taken from 5:16 of job.

poem by t.kuomi.

you lean way back

in a kitchen chair until

there are only two of its legs

left on the ground?

then you tilt

just a tiny bit farther

and you almost fall,

but at the very last second

you catch yourself?

steeking feels

an awful lot

like that.

‘catch’ taken from 2:15 in the song of songs.

*

i felt a clearing in my mind

as if my brain had split;

i tried to match it, seam by seam,

but could not make them fit.

*

the thought behind i strove to join

unto the thought before,

but sequence

ravelled out of reach

like balls (of yarn)

upon a floor.

*

‘split’ taken from 10:9 of ecclesiastes.

‘the lost thought’ by emily dickinson.

and Shokan is tickled quite pink

to both be included in the first ever issue of Clotheshorse,

an on-line knitting fashion mag that premiered this Spring.

i know it’s

not quite there yet.

still,

after frogging down a full

three inches

(because

i noticed that

i’d skipped an entire

row of the cable chart – ugh),

it struck me that

my stitch marker

sure does look pretty

in this light, don’t ‘cha think so?

‘light’ taken from 11:9-10 of john.

i am currently

working on

a tight deadline.

how did you

even know that?

ah yes,

the intensity of

the errors made

does seem to be

directly related

to the amount

of time

that i don’t

have left to finish.

‘errors’ taken from 19:12 in the psalms.