Saturday, 1 February 2025

A Poem a Day (704): The machine

 
The machine
 
A broken thread,
it cannot be gathered
or rejoined, extinguished
sound. The pathway, once clear,
eats noise, the teeth of the machine,
a Singer with no tune.
 
Life waits at the edges of
shunted cloth, pushed forth at pace.
But the link is gone.
 
The hole in the fabric blinks,
a chasm without light. It pulls
and you feel it sometimes. But cloth,
it cannot feel, they say. You can’t feel
what you never had.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 1, 2025


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