Grandma’s Quilts

 

Patchwork pieces

Stitched with care

Each thread linking

Generations

 

Her flowered apron

Worn to make the bread

School dresses with lace collars

Sewn next to Uncle Harry’s boxer shorts

 

Flannel pajamas

Of sixty cousin’s cousins

Held together

With love

 

Grandpa’s work shirts

Blue and green worn soft

After years of day shifts at

The paper mill

 

Here and there across the years

The fabric of our family

Held together with a

Common thread

 

 

Diane E. Dockum

©2014